When There is Too Much for the Council: How to Dispose of Green Waste

Managing garden waste on a small scale has always been a part of a gardener’s skill set, and the options were simple. For grass, you could either leave the lawn clippings where they fell, to hopefully protect and nourish the new grass, or set up a compost heap and become one of those individuals making fertiliser out of nothing, maybe with some weeds judiciously added. For leaves, branches etc, you could stick them under the hedges and hope they went away. But how to dispose of large amounts of garden waste is another matter.

Garden Waste Disposal Options
Mulching

Mulching, of course, is a brilliant idea that can turn a negative into a positive. It’s a relatively new concept, even if the word itself is said to have been around since the 1700s. The idea of mincing garden refuse and applying it in certain areas to retain moisture and suppress weeds relies on being able to reduce it to that spreadable state, and electric shredders were rather thin on the ground until the late 20th century. Your local council may well do this kind of thing, using the resultant organic material to feed and protect the plants in its parks and gardens.

Burning

The age-old solution of creating a big bonfire, has been largely extinguished due to our increased awareness that we can’t just let gases and smoke float up, up and away and think that’s the end of it with no consequences. And then you’ve got climate change and fires raging out of control on the news and in our own country. No, you can’t just burn stuff anymore.

Local Council Pick Up

Now that we are all aware of the need to dispose of things responsibly, garden rubbish – AKA green waste or vegetative debris – has come to the attention of local authorities, to the extent that in many areas, Melbourne included, there are free schemes whereby they will come and take away small amounts on a regular basis. That means if you trim the lawn every couple of weeks during the productive seasons, you can put it into a suitable receptacle you’re given for that purpose and, just like the ordinary rubbish is collected by the bin guys, the green waste will be taken way too.

Dealing With Larger Amounts of Garden Waste

But what about if you have a large amounts of garden waste? Is there such a thing as eco-friendly waste disposal on the Sunshine Coast that caters for people who generate sizeable quantities regularly or are just undertaking a big project and have much more than the amount the council will take off their hands in a month?

Find Yourself a Skip Company with a Responsible Attitude

There are companies that provide all manner of skips for hire for everything from clearing out the garage at home to taking away debris from building sites and removing unwanted by-products from factories. A good company like Kartaway can handle “vegetative debris” too.

Let’s say you are bringing order to your big, unruly yard by finally cutting back the trees and shrubs that have flourished unchallenged for decades. That’s another thing that can be a quite satisfying job, wielding a hedge trimmer and hacking your way through the undergrowth.

Think about what the landscaping companies have to deal with. They can be responsible for clearing vast swathes of land that have been approved for development, and their job isn’t done until what was once rampant nature has been “tidied up” and the unwanted material carted away, ready for the building to begin.

In this day and age, we have a duty to deal with this efficiently and thoughtfully. Whether you have enough branches and twigs to fill an Olympic swimming pool or enough nettles to start a tea business, you can find someone to take them away and dispose of them properly.
Thankfully it is as easy as picking up the phone and booking in with a green waste removal company on the Sunshine Coast.

How Skips Can Enable Eco-friendly Waste Disposal on the Sunshine Coast

It’s quite simple, really. You find the right company with the equipment and the knowledge to take your green waste to somewhere it is wanted, and with a bit of specialist attention, it just might do some good. At Kartaway we provide sustainable green waste removal on the Sunshine Coast. From smaller garden projects to big landscaping jobs, we provide green waste skips of all sizes and dispose of it responsibly.
Contact us today to get a quote.