We’ve launched a new ‘City Clean’ team to improve our service and to help keep the community we all love clean and safe from hazards.
Our dedicated City Clean Team empties up to 300 bins a day, responds to customer requests of any overflowing public bins, and clears footpaths, parks and reserves of any hard rubbish or hazards while out on duty.
The initiative aims to provide value to our residents in a cost-effective and environmentally efficient way as an alternative to outsourcing the service to contractors.
City Clean Team Member Kate says there’s a sense of pride in working together to keep our City beautiful.
“City Clean is important because you don’t want to live in a community that looks messy,” she said.
“We clean up everything we come across that’s causing a hazard or making a mess up to and including furniture and trees – we’re not just here to pick up bins.”
A modern, efficient and colourful compactor truck is a feature of the new service. We recently shared the opportunity to vote on a fun nickname for the truck with our whole community.
The winning name was ‘Bin Chicken’ attracting almost half of the total vote – much to the delight of the City Clean Team.
“The truck definitely stands out… basically every day someone will ask us about it” Kate said.
“I think it should be called the ‘Bin Chicken’, one hundred percent…bin chickens are awesome!”
Keep an eye out for the City Clean Team on our streets and be sure to say hello to Kate and the crew.