Here in Adelaide we don't even have what you guys call tip shops. Tea Tree Gully Council have what we call "Environmental Sunday" which is held on the second and last Sunday of each month at Elmers Park facility. TTG rate payers are eligible to off load Green Waste, Scrap Metal, Plastics, Oil, Paint and E-waste for free. I used to go over there and check out what was been dumped and it was surprising what was being dropped off at both Scrap Metal and E-Waste. Sometimes I'd come home with a ute full, other times nothing at all. Now they've put the hard word out to their employees that nothing is allowed to be given away at all as they want all the cash from it as they merely send it on Monday morning to a scrap yard where they get the most for it. They used to have a policy if you can reuse something it was better that it got a second life but it's now all about the money to them and nothing else.
Cheers,
BB.
