WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH!

By Samantha Elley

It started out as a pile of food debris and then it just grew.

The rubbish pile that sits just outside the gates of Cheryl Allen’ s Tucki Tucki home has continued to be an eyesore ever since the foods last year.

“I rang council to ask them to move it, but I was told they’d stopped doing that at Christmas time,” Cheryl said.

“So I rang Public Works and even rang Janelle Saffn’s offce, but no one seems to be able to move it.” And while no one is taking responsibility, the pile of rubbish continues to grow.

Cheryl said some of the rubbish was food debris found in her tea-tree paddocks including fridges, buckets, furniture, drums, sheets of plastic and the list goes on.

“But because the pile has been here so long now, I notice some people have dumped their household waste on it too,” she said.

“That has attracted snakes, rats, mice and my dogs even ferret around on the pile.”

Cheryl would like to see the front of her property back to the way it was.

“We always had it mowed and looking neat,” she said.

“I don’t want to keep looking at the constant reminder of what we lost in the foods.”

Cheryl advised The Northern Rivers Times that since speaking to us,

Council have confrmed they will come and move the rubbish pile. We watch this space, also noticing another rubbish pile that seems to have grown on the cane pad just outside of Woodburn on Forest Road.