Campground confetti

The Simpson Desert has heaps of dumped rubbish if you look, also if a bin is full, they should take their rubbish with them!

I must admit I am a bit anti-bins.

It seems to me that where bins are placed people are happier to overfill them and stack rubbish beside the bin when it is full. Roadside/overnight stop bins are notorious for being overfilled.

In my utopia world I would prefer to see large mini-skip type bins positioned just outside communities. Make it easier for the local community to monitor and clear out on an as needs basis.

But then I woke up.

Some people just do not care.
We have had nappies left on the seat of a school bus stop. It would be fantastic if people didn't go away and leave their brains at home. Treat where you are like it is your own front yard and be responsible.
It is a bit like the drivers who don't slow down to 50 going through town. I guess I have lived too long on the Pacific Highway between major tourist centres. Too many people are focussed on point A to point B and DILLIGAF about the places in between.
End of rant.

Of course the opposite also happens.
When I changed my oil in Derby I scoped out the tip to be confronted with big signs saying ratepayers only. I then made a deal with the oil seller to take my old oil. Still it was annoying.
Similarly in Cooktown , I was supposed to pay AFAIR $10 to dump some oil at the tip, but the blokes on duty said nah its OK.

But I agree that the grey wanderers seem to foul every free camp. Also the comment about black water. I can attest to seeing many many National Park toilets and rest stop toilets reeking from having caravan cassettes poured down them and killing all the bacteria. I have rarely if ever stayed in a free camp because of this although I have driven around many , but really old sale yards, or open fields with a toilet in the corner like at Mareeba do nothing at all for me. . I would rather pay a bit and have clean facilities and no dunny paper everywhere. Although not all camping grounds you pay for are clean . I stayed at One Arm Point and the locals charged $35? a night and the toilets and cold showers were 1KM away. I spent the first half hour shovelling bleep and burying it .
The free camp at Surat comes to mind. I got there at 2pm and people were sprawled out all over the place either guarding spots for friends or just bloody minded and wanting immense sites to themselves. Only a couple of toilets . I went back into town and the Royal Hotel runs a great little caravan park for $18 a night then with great hot showers , power , and clean amenities.

Regards Philip A

The last time we were at the Galena Bridge WA site the south side of the river was clean with dunnies and bins that got emptied by a main roads contractor. Northside was a bleep heap with bins over flowing and rubbish everywhere and no toilets.
I was talking to the nephew of a middle eastern person who just sat in his vehicle and dropped his rubbish straight out beside him....no attempts at all to bin it. It wasn't until he pulled away I saw the crap he'd left.
I got onto Main Roads who assured me the contractor was supposed to do both areas but when I told them what it was like they assured me they'd get right onto him.
We haven't been that way for a while now but hope it's improved but the behaviour of the above person and others like him will never change.
Let's hope he wasn't let in for "humanitarian reasons"......
AlanH.