City-wide kerbside rubbish program would take nine months to collect, says report

Glen Humphries
Updated September 17 2021 - 3:30pm, first published 2:00pm
Clean-up: A possible city-wide kerbside collection in Shellharbour would add piles of garbage to landfil, according to council documents. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
Clean-up: A possible city-wide kerbside collection in Shellharbour would add piles of garbage to landfil, according to council documents. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

Waste contractors could spend up to nine months cleaning up rubbish if a kerbside collection plan was introduced across Shellharbour, according to council documents.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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