Waste collectors warn bin services may stop if diesel not found urgently
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-25/waste-collectors-diesel-shortage-essential-service/106490734?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
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Well then my rates better be decreased temporarily to adjust for the stoppage in services
What the fuck is it with all these panic stories? Why isn’t it $10/L to send a proper price signal if we’re going to have garbage in the streets?
This is mostly about trying to get the garbage truck industry to be seen as an essential service, which for skip bins and bigger I can agree with, but as an individual I can drive my rubbish to the transfer station on the weekend if have to.
After they reduce my rates right……right??!
Plenty of diesal to be found bro, its everywhere
Then I’ll start burning trash out in the fire pit.
When diesel becomes more expensive than beer or milk or even mineral water then it’s panic time.
And we will still get fines from the council for dumping the mounds of waste they are not picking up on the side of the road.
Did they check down the back of the sofa? That’s where I find everything.
It takes around 40 days to travel by sea from Qatar to Sydney. So this thing is just getting started and we won’t feel the true effects for another 4 or so weeks.
never been more glad to be a cripple (tax exempt)
Electric garbage trucks have been a thing for years, and make so much sense for a job with constant stopping and starting. Plus, far less noise and pollution compared to foul diesel.
But but isn’t this why we privatised absolutely everything? Or once again tax payers absorb the risk
Well, we will literally be ‘in the shit’ then 😂
What is going on lmao. Are we in a crisis or not?
So we will just burn our rubbish soon like they do in Bali?
I mean we’ve had a decade to get off being so dependent on oil. But liberals dragged us so far right I don’t even think anything will change after this.
You know what that means. Time to emergency stockpile toilet paper again, dickheads!
This covid toilet paper stupidity all over
There isnt a shortage, people are just buying more than the supply chain can keep up with.
When did the world fail maths101. The gulf states supply 20% of the world’s crude oil. That still leaves 80% of the worlds crude un-affected. But somehow that 20% is enough to turn the world into Mad Max.
Sanitation is a public health issue. If it got to that point they’d ration diesel and garbage trucks and other trucks performing essential services would get priority use.
I’m sorry but if I can still fill up and go to work then the fucking place that takes 5k a year from me can manage to keep collecting my rubbish.
Media really having a blast hyping up every worst case scenario
I would think EV garbage trucks would be perfect?
Regularly going back to a central point throughout the day:
1. Leave the transfer station
2. Collect rubbish
3. Return to transfer station
4. Empty Trash
5. Swap to fresh battery
6. Repeat?
cool, so no change to my red bin pickup schedule (they never fucking pick it up)
Why ‘may’?
What other fuel can a diesel vehicle run on – in the absence of diesel?
I’m getting very bored at what counts as a human these days.
The media should be removed from the civilised world. They don’t do anything to better humanity.