What started as a joke has now become a weekly habit for Jaylee Dixon, the Bendigo real estate agent keeping an online record of kerbside rubbish heaps around her hometown.
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The Step Up Property agent said she was fascinated by nature strip collections because there was no hard rubbish pick-up in Bendigo.
“People are putting stuff out there waiting for a collection that never comes,” she said.
“How long is it going to sit there for?”
The first to capture Ms Dixon’s attention was two pairs or armchairs, stacked on top of one another. She called it a “double decker”.
Since then, friends and clients have been sending her pictures of nature strip stockpiles spotted around Bendigo.
Despite finding the humour in roadside rubbish, Ms Dixon said it was a “serious problem” in the city.
She believed the property’s owners did not have a way of transporting the junk to landfill, or could not afford the price of disposal.
The real estate agent also said hard rubbish by the road was “not a good look” for those trying to sell or rent a home.
“First impressions count,” Ms Dixon said.
“I think it can make a property look fairly tatty and just a neighbourhood street look not cared for, perhaps.
“It just really highlighted that there needs to be some kind of service, maybe some kind of controlled service, periodic every couple of months.”
A co-ordinated response from council would be better than issuing fines for littering, she said.
But Ms Dixon feared some people could start stockpiling material outside their homes weeks or months before a hard rubbish collection was scheduled to take place.