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HAVING TO remove a dangerous tree, we found these chirpy fellows in it. We called a wildlife rescue service, who finding on arrival that they couldn’t transplant the nest, worked on a solution while our trees team was on site. The outcome was that the resident whose house was struck (by the tree), allowed us to hang a provisional nest in his Eucalyptus, while the lady from wildlife rescue estimated the crows to be about 3-4 weeks away from leaving the nest. We later returned to the site to find the parents attending the new nest. Altogether a great outcome!
- Kieron Spring Bayside Trees Arborist
THIS IS Nick Zafiris (right), one of our City of Melbourne Tree Planting Team members, taking an opportunistic “selfie” with Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp. The Lord Mayor was doing a lap of the ‘Tan Track’ a little while back and happened to drop into to our Tree planting team and thank them for doing a great job planting new trees along Anderson St hill, South Yarra. “Sally stopped for a short chat and thanked them all for their efforts and told them what a wonderful job they were doing, then proceeded to post her own Facebook video update from the site spruiking about how great it was to see new trees being planted along the Tan Track. So our Nick saw a window of opportunity and asked her for a selfie with him!
(C/o Rod Fraser, Senior Arborist, Melbourne Trees)
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News in Pictures Working for Victoria artists provide splash of colour in Bayside anti-graffiti program
NATIVE birdlife and colourful sea creatures are themes of the first public installations painted by two talented street artists. Jason Parker and Daiana Ingleton were commissioned to design and paint these and other murals as part of the Working for Victoria program, managed by Citywide for Bayside City Council, in Melbourne’s southeast. The program aims to deter graffiti with amazing street art on the buildings in the suburbs of Brighton and Hampton. After completing two toilet blocks artwork, Jason and Daiana moved on to a railway underpass in Brighton, the Sandringham Life Saving Club, Cheltenham Girl Guide hall and another public toilet in Jack Barker oval also in Cheltenham. The Working for Victoria program
ABOVE: Daiana Ingleton completes the initial undercoat and prep work on a site at Willis St, Hampton.
was fully-funded by the Victorian Government to help get people back to work following the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project also employed cleaning crews tasked with cleaning public spaces and removing graffiti in shopping strips and foreshore areas. - Tony Richter
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ABOVE: Jason Parker continues with his mural art on a toilet block in Dendy Park, Brighton
A BIG shout out to our teammates at Frontline Electrical, our Tasmanian subsidiary, who scooped three awards at the 2021 Tasmanian National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA) Project and Apprentice Excellence Awards. Frontline, who were represented at the Awards by Project Manager Jason Bryan, Industrial Apprentice Award winner Daniel Debnam and State Manager Martin Jackson (photo L-R) were successful in three categories: • Lighting Project - Glenorchy City Council
CBD Revitalisation • Medium Industrial Project - Goldwind
Cattlehill Windfarm • Industrial Apprentice Award - Daniel
Debnam
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AFTER more than 70 years of operation, the Mobil Altona Refinery west of Melbourne has been earmarked for closure as reviews have found it is no longer economically viable. As one of the major contracting companies supporting Mobil, the announcement was a poignant moment for the 20-plus Gordon McKay staff who have maintained and upgraded works across the site for many years. With the refinery closing, Mobil will be converting the remaining storage into an import terminal, which the company said would “ensure ongoing, reliable fuel supply for Victoria”. The Gordon McKay team has been instrumental with their support of the Mobil team and will miss the comraderie of their fellow workmates and friends as they move into their next stage of their working life. We would like to thank the Gordon McKay personnel for their professional attitude & workmanship.
- Pat Goldie
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WITH Christmas upon us, Melbourne’s garbage collectors are once again bracing for the one thing that can ruin their holiday season – a discarded battery that turns into a dangerous ‘hot load’. Hot loads are usually caused when a computer, a smartphone or a device with a lithium battery spontaneously combusts in the back of a garbage truck. In the past 12 months, Citywide has experienced fires in five of its trucks caused by incorrectly disposed e-waste. “Fortunately no one has been hurt in any of these incidents, but they can create enormous damage to our trucks – not to mention callouts to the fire service, traffic jams, and a huge mess on the roads,” says Citywide’s Innovation and Continuous Improvement Manager, Liam Crowley. To reduce the risk of hot loads – and prevent recyclable electronics entering landfill – Citywide has joined forces with our long-term social enterprise partner, Good Cycles, to pilot an e-waste collection service in the City of Melbourne. With funding from Sustainability Victoria through the Recycling Victoria Councils Fund, the City Council selected 11 postcodes where a free e-waste collection service has been running since mid-November. Due to growing demand, the partners are now in discussions to extend the pilot beyond its initial two-month target. “E-waste items dumped in regular rubbish bins pose a major health and safety risk when they’re compacted in our trucks, which can puncture the casings and cause the chemicals inside to combust,” explains Duncan Reid, Citywide’s Executive - Operations. “It really doesn’t take much for this type of electronic waste to flare up, even if it’s buried and compacted under mixed rubbish materials while still in our trucks.” E-waste was banned from landfill by the Victorian Government in 2019. According to Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority, e-waste is growing up to three times faster than general municipal waste across Australia. The City of Melbourne’s e-waste collection trial runs until January 8th. As well as used batteries, the types of e-waste that Good Cycles will pick up from residential ratepayers include laptops, tablets, smartphones, hard-drives, modems, keyboards, computer mice, gaming controllers, kettles, toasters, hairdryers, and old plugs and cables. If successful, the trial will form the foundation for a long-term collection service to support the proper processing and reuse of e-waste. “We really hope that people will keep using this service, because if there’s a good uptake there’ll be a greater chance of having a permanent collection service for residents,” says Liam Crowley. “As we all know, a lot of these devices are not built to last – so it’s really important to provide a proper collection service for them so that they can enter a proper recycling stream and form part of our circular economy.”
BREAKING OLD HABITS WITH MORE GLASS AND LESS SAND
GREENPAVE™ G
GreenPave™ G asphalt mixes are made from locally-sourced glass originally used in drink bottles and jars. These are cleaned, crushed and graded to meet Citywide Asphalt Group's stringent manufacturing specifications. The glass is then cold-injected into the manufacturing process to create a uniform blend of binder, reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), aggregates and glass. The process is no different to the production of normal asphalt — but with the added benefit of using a high proportion of recycled materials.
