Bunnings, Lidcombe

Bunnings sell an enormous range of useful goodies, including rubbish bags and tools to help you pick up rubbish.  It's a pity that they don't seem to make much use of them at the Lidcombe store.  The store carpark backs onto the motorway, and a great deal of rubbish has built up against the boundary fence.  Someone is cutting the grass along the fence, so they must know it is there - but no one is doing anything about it.

They're probably using a contractor to cut the grass, and the contractor doesn't see it as their job to report the huge pile of rubbish along the fence.  Or the contractor has been engaged by the landlord, who doesn't care.  Whichever way you look at it, it's not good for Bunnings image as a good corporate citizen.

I've used the feedback form on the Bunnings website to ask them to clean this up.

Not all the rubbish is on the Bunnings side of the fence, the bike path and motorway reservation are being used for illicit dumping of bulk rubbish.

Do Bunnings sell rubbish bins?

This video shows the back of the Bunnings car park in Auburn.  Sorry about the poor quality, and I failed to shoot the entire stretch - the bit I missed was worse than what I filmed.

An amazing quantity of rubbish has blown up against the fence at the back of the car park, and collected between the fence and a berm.  The earth berm blocks the view of this rubbish tip from the car park, so I guess the Bunnings employees have no idea what lurks out the back here.

Bunnings could also argue that this is not their problem - there are other businesses sharing this car park.  That much is true, but Bunnings are the dominant (or anchor) store here, and they do like to project a caring, sharing image.  They could buff that image by pulling some bin liners and rubbish grabbers off the shelves and sending anyone late for work out the back to do a bit of cleaning up.

Bunnings - followup

I had some followup from the Police this week in regard to Bunnings.  The store was visited, and it turns out that Bunnings are complying with the law - the Summary Offenses Act was amended to allow storage of spray paint at a height greater than 2.1 metres.  The legal database that I consulted is clearly out of date.

Bunnings

I was in my local Bunnings Warehouse in Ashfield this morning and noticed that although they have a locked cage for storing spray paint (as per the regulations), they are storing excess stock on top of the cage where it is easily accessible to anyone walking past.

The excess stock included glossy spray paint and line marking paint.

There are quite a few boxes of paint up there.

Since this appears to contravene the Summary Offences Act 1988 Section 10D, I rang the Police Assistance Line on 131 444 and reported it.  The response that I got was that the next available car will visit the store and have a look.  Events like this don't get a COPS Event Number as it is not malicious damage or something like that.  Although I presume some sort of event number will be recorded if they prosecute the store.

The Summary Offences Act says that:

(2) A spray paint can is properly secured if it is displayed:

(a) in a locked cabinet, or

(b) within or behind a counter in such a manner that members of the public are not able to gain access to the can without the assistance of the occupier or an employee or agent of the occupier, or

(c) in any other manner prescribed by the regulations.