BELCONNEN residents who experienced power outages and spoiled food following the severe storm on Monday (January 3) will be offered free food waste disposal at the Mitchell and Mugga Lane Resource Management Centres.
From today until Saturday, January 15, Belconnen residents could dispose of food waste at the Mitchell and Mugga Lane transfer stations, up to a medium-sized load (a sedan with trailer, a utility or a wagon), said Ben McHugh from City Services.
“It is important to note this fee waiver applies to spoilt food waste as a result of the power outages, not for the disposal of other items,” he said.
“This is in addition to the skip bin for food waste that has been arranged at the community information hub at the Rural Fire Service Molonglo Brigade at 27 Drake Brockman Drive, Higgins.
“For those members in the community who may experience difficulties with transport, we ask people to please check in with their neighbours as well as family and friends if they can provide some assistance in delivering household quantities of food waste to the Mugga Lane site.”
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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