A new high-tech garbage truck can check the contents of your bins.

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May 21 2019 - 1:42pm
WELCOME: Elouera Association, whose employees with disabilities sort all recycling material by hand, hopes the new truck will reduce the amount of "red bin rubbish" put into yellow bins, especially rubbish in fine plastic bags.
WELCOME: Elouera Association, whose employees with disabilities sort all recycling material by hand, hopes the new truck will reduce the amount of "red bin rubbish" put into yellow bins, especially rubbish in fine plastic bags.

A new high-tech garbage truck has joined Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council's vehicle fleet, capable of seeing what's in rubbish bins as they are being emptied into the hopper behind the driver's cabin.

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Tom Gosling

Journalist, Cootamundra Herald

I've had a long career in journalism and corporate communications, starting with country newspapers, radio and TV in northern NSW and including ABC News Sydney and the Melbourne Herald. I edited The University of Sydney News for 10 years, and was Media Officer for CSIRO in Canberra and BHP Steelworks in Port Kembla.

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