I did two small road trips in 2013, both of which saw me visit the Midcoast region of NSW for the local JR Richards collection vehicles. Initially I swung by the former Greater Taree council area and caught a recycling and garbage truck on video, one of which I posted on here a couple of years ago. The second time I travelled to the now former Great Lakes council and caught a green-waste truck on a Wednesday afternoon in the suburb of Hawks Nest. I originally had hopes to get kerbside clean-up on film in the same area, but that didn’t happen, and instead I found myself waiting around for quite some time to video the greens collection. I expected a 25m garbage bodied truck would rock up to empty the green lidded bins, but instead one of the bigger 35m units appeared around mid afternoon. I found out this particular truck handled all the recycling and greens collections in the southern most locations of the regional area, being further away from the main population centres and majority operation of the Midcoast contract. Green-waste gets dumped locally at the Tea Gardens tip and every second day a full load of recycling gets run up to the Tuncurry MRF. A big thanks goes to the very cheery driver for letting me video and for suggesting I follow him to the tip for the unloading (seen at the end). Note this isn’t fast paced go-go-go action, rather the job might come across slow during the video due to the available spots I videoed, he was going easy on his machine too :D