Dumping disgrace

LOCAL RESIDENTS were shocked and angry to see rubbish dumped out the front of a former op shop in Tweed Heads South last week, calling it “disgusting”.

The rubbish was dumped at the former Lifeline Op Shop on the corner of Greenway Drive and Tierneys Place.

“It’s disgusting,” a local business owner who didn’t want to be named said.

“I run two businesses out of that area and it’s embarrassing when you have clients coming in.

“That op shop has been closed for nearly three weeks now. “They are grubs, whoever is doing it.

“Seriously there was a big sign up saying they have moved, it’s not there any more, but it’s obviously empty and there are people in there doing work.”

There were some comments online suggesting that some of the rubbish had been removed from inside the building during the renovation, but had been added to by dumping.

“Our motion passed through the other 1,100 delegates.”

A program to increase resilience in a natural disasters received enthusiastic support.

“Shoalhaven City Council has come up with a building app where you can put in details about your home and it will come up with ways to retrofit existing houses to make them much more resilient to floods, fire, cyclones, etc,” Cr Cherry said.

“It looks like the Insurance Council of Australia will recognise this process so that’s really important.

“They are retrofitting 14 houses in the Shoalhaven.

“The other thing I found really cool was that in the Gulf of Carpentaria they are using artificial intelligence to have cameras on roads and they have trained the AI program to recognise when the road is inundated and to put out an alert, which I think would be a fantastic idea for our shire.

“It’s so difficult to get around when we have a flood so that could be a huge help.”

The rubbish had been cleaned up by Monday morning, June 19, but it’s not the first time it has happened and local residents are fed up with the same thing happening at other op shops around the shire.