Mount Isa residents may need to get used to rubbish collection delays for the next few months.
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Collection of rubbish around the city at Easter was already affected by the public holidays and the issue was made worse with Council's rubbish trucks forced off the road due to the need for repairs.
The Council has three rubbish trucks and two are due to be replaced in the coming months
At its Wednesday, January 27 meeting, Council spent $657,985 on two new garbage trucks in a contract awarded to Tony Ireland Isuzu of Garbutt in Townsville.
Council said it has three trucks to do domestic refuse collection and two of them are seven years old and at the point where they need to be replaced as typically they are used as backup vehicles after seven years.
Council said the third truck will need to be replaced in the next financial year.
However Cr Paul Stretton told the ABC Monday the problem is the two new trucks will not be available for another five to six months.
"We have some new trucks ordered but they won't be here until September, October," Cr Stretton said.
"We don't have vehicles sitting on the shelves like a Toyota, they get made specifically for the businesses that operate them."
The issues come as Mount Isa City Council examines the possibility of moving from two to one collection of rubbish a week, in tandem with recycling collection.
At Council's March 17 Ordinary Meeting, Council resolved to hold community consultation sessions in April about the proposed introduction of a yellow-top residential recycling bin service.
The current proposal is for yellow-top bins to be distributed throughout the community in the second half of 2022, and the recycling collections to be done on a fortnightly basis.
One option is for red-top (general waste) collections to be carried out once a week.
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Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
