These bags are degradable, however council have advised me that we cannot place these bags in the new FOGO/green waste pickups every week. Instead, if you do use them, you will still have to place  used bags in general waste.

This is a real pity, as one would have thought that if council were genuinely behind reducing general waste, they would update these bags to the correct type and provide correct services, instead of expecting people to place their droppings into the red bins and smelling out the place once the summer heat hits them during their fortnightly build-up to collection.

Why have a service that accepts pet waste, yet not provide correct measure for those who are responsible, to utilise from the start?

I myself have over 500+ of these bags as I purchase them in bulk online (exactly the same ones council use). They were quite cheap at $30 for 675 bags (three rolls), but now council are saying we need to use compostable bags which online are nearly $40 for 180.  Huge difference and yet more expense for responsible owners.

When are council going to update the parks and beaches and provide correct bins at these locations instead of general waste bins which receive a mixture of compostable and non compostable rubbish daily?

I have waited anxiously for my green bin. Didn’t even care if I had to pay for it.

Pity it doesn’t mention in bold letters in all the  FOGO literature, not just little pictures, that I will now only have the red bin fortnightly. I wouldn’t have been any the wiser until I saw it on a TV ad tonight.

In fact we are not getting an additional service, we are losing the main one, the red bin, which will only be once a fortnight.

I will bet the large majority of residents are not aware the red bin will now be fortnightly.

I was watching the council on Thursday arvo from my house as they were flushing out the water – on to the road.

There was enough water going down the drain you could have sunk the Bismarck with what was pouring out.

What they should do is when they flush the system out they could put in a tanker and then take it out to one of the many farms that are as dry as a Mallee bull. They could put it in their dams and they’d be happy to have it.

Our so-called government would not even think about it past their nose, the useless bunch. The poor farmers get charged enough for sprinkling their crops as it is – it shouldn’t be charged for if the council will waste it down the drain.

Oh well, I suppose they will look at this and not do a thing about it.

There can be no better example of Bill Clinton’s “it’s the economy stupid” than Trump’s response to the outrage of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and the utterly reprehensible, muted response from governments around the world, including our own.

They are all terrified of getting offside with the Saudi regime because we are so reliant on its oil and its weapons orders, amounting to untold billions of dollars.

No outrage, no amount of bankrolling and protection of terrorists, no amount of “collateral damage” in Yemen will deflect leaders, including our own from their subservience to the fossil fuel interests at home and abroad.