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Blue Mountains Green Waste

One place I felt I needed to return to was the Blue Mountains, being one of my earliest distant truck hunting ventures away from home 14 years ago! The mission I had was to capture a look at the modern services and newer collection vehicles operating in the extensive region. Back when I first went there, the council had just changed the crate recycling service to a system involving JJ Richards side loaders emptying 140L yellow lid MGBs weekly. Then jump forward to July 2016, the council took another major step in improving household waste management at the kerbside, again contracting JJ Richards to empty a fair share of bins. In most cases, the existing recycling 140Ls had red lids fitted to become garbage bins, the existing garbage 240Ls had yellow lids fitted to become recycle bins and a lime green lid 240L was delivered for the new garden vegetation service, thus providing residents with the common 3-bin-system. The council continued to perform weekly waste collections in-house with their own fleet, meanwhile JJ Richards put together seven fresh side arm trucks to handle the new fortnightly recycling and greens services. During April 2021 I got out and about doing some videos, finding myself heading out to the Blue Mountains in the dark of a Monday morning, arriving in the first suburb of Lapstone at dawn. I scoped out the area for trucks during sunrise, gradually making my way through the familiar suburbs of Glenbrook and Blaxland, where I located the priority side lift and started doing my thing. Having been employed at JJ’s myself at the time, I actually took advantage of my access to the company’s j-Track, researching which trucks work where and what time they tend to finish their first load – this helped a lot! After racing around with monster truck 1522, I tried to swiftly track down one of the smaller machines with little hope of success, yet driving along the right street had me bumping into DAV 1651 literally on the last long stretch of road for the load. Last to go was standard capacity 1544, which I located soon after, but decided to video during broad daylight later in the morning (after waiting a bloody lifetime for the truck’s arrival). I was very determined to get each of the three sizes of side loader on video doing greens, which I thankfully achieved only just! Garbage collected by the council ends up at the Blaxland waste management centre for local landfilling, whereas the recycling and garden organics travel out of the region. Greens are initially delivered to the Katoomba waste transfer station, before being transported to Australian Native Landscapes at Blayney to undergo shredding and composting. Meanwhile, recycling is trucked by the collection vehicles directly to the Visy MRF in Smithfield. To avoid a logistical nightmare, the Richards trucks start each morning collecting garden waste, which is unloaded at Katoomba in the upper mountains, then they collect the recycling which the trucks bring back down into Sydney, with a little detour to the MRF before heading back to the depot. However, with the mountains being very rich in garden vegetation, there are heavy days where a truck needs to do an additional load of greens and mop up the leftovers from other runs. I’ll mention there are separate Monday to Friday collection zones in both the upper and lower mountains, so one area gets green waste done while the other area gets recycling done – plenty of Great Western Hwy travelling is involved! Until I captured these trucks, I hadn’t videoed any JJR side loaders paired up with this later model Iveco ACCO, in fact the only other NSW council contract with a fleet of these is Queanbeyan. It’s also the first time I videoed a big Richards 35m body with the standard size hopper... you never really see these doing anything other than recycling too! I didn’t bother getting the latest council works side loaders on video, because it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. Although, Blue Mountains very recently took delivery of some different Superior Pak Volvos, otherwise prior they have been running some Bucher Gen5 and Gen6 units also on Volvos. All the side loaders up in the mountains have this same theme of body signage, featuring some of the little critters that call the region home... I reckon they’re very adorable images =] Thanks a million to each of the drivers for being cool with me grabbing some videos of their equipment on this beautiful sunny morning, which I happily spent away from Sydney in this refreshing, peaceful and green mountains environment.