The benefits of Household Rubbish Removal Services vs alternatives: which is the best?
Whether you’re decluttering your home to maximise your living space, cleaning out a deceased estate, preparing your home for sale or renovation, or simply freshening it up with a spring clean, excess household rubbish is inevitable. And we all know that there’s only so much rubbish you can fit into your red council bin!
So what are your options when it comes to disposing of your unwanted household rubbish?
Regardless of which council area you live in Sydney, there are really only four ways you can dispose of your household rubbish:
🚮a rubbish removal service
🚮hiring a skip bin
🚮booking a council cleanup, or
🚮taking it to the tip.
What’s the best way to remove your household rubbish?
Compared to hiring a skip bin, booking a council clean up or taking your rubbish to the tip yourself, rubbish removal specialists like Rov’s Rubbish Removal provides the most cost-effective, convenient, time saving and environmentally friendly way to dispose of your household rubbish!
We’ve created this table to provide you with a quick and concise summary of the benefits of household rubbish removal services in comparison with the alternatives.
| Benefits | Rubbish Removal Service | Skip Bin | Council Cleanup | Local Tip |
| Fast and convenient service | ✔ | ✔
Depends on skip company |
❌
Only two services permitted per year – need to book ahead |
❌ |
| Cost-effective collection | ✔
You only pay for what is removed |
❌
If you don’t fill the skip you pay for more than you need |
Service is free, however it can be a false economy as you’ll need to pay to dispose of the rubbish the council won’t collect | ❌ |
| Hand-loaded by professionals and safer for you | ✔
You don’t lift a finger – the professionals do all the heavy lifting for you |
❌
You have to carry the rubbish and load the skip yourself |
❌
You have to carry all of the rubbish outside yourself |
❌
You have to load the ute and take the rubbish to the tip yourself |
| Time-saving | ✔
Remove your rubbish quickly and efficiently and sort the recycling |
❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Flexible dates and times | ✔
You can schedule the collection a time that suits you, even at very short notice |
✔ | ❌
Only two collections a year – scheduled to suit the council worker, not you! |
❌
Limited by tip opening times |
| Recycling of rubbish | ✔
Environmentally friendly option – waste is disposed in the most appropriate way and recycled where possible |
✔ | ❌
Everything in your clean-up collection pile goes into the council truck! |
❌
You have to sort your rubbish first to be delivered to different sections of the tip |
| More hygienic and less hazardous | ✔
No rubbish lying around in piles waiting for collection – it’s collected within 24 hours from your home |
✔ | ❌
Rubbish waiting for collection council clean up pile can become strewn across footpath and become a trip hazard |
❌
Rubbish piles at home waiting to go to tip can attract mice, snakes or become a fire hazard. |
| Space saving | ✔
Removes the need to stockpile rubbish or make room for a bulky skip bin |
❌
Takes up a lot of space – can kill grass and block driveway access |
❌
You need to stockpile rubbish while you wait for collection date |
❌
Rubbish is stockpiled until you can go to the tip |
| All rubbish removed in one go | ✔
Any non-hazardous materials that can be lifted into a rubbish removal truck will be taken |
❌
Each bin can only take one type of rubbish |
❌
Not all items can be collected by council |
❌ |
| Suitable for all sizes of jobs | ✔
You only pay for the amount of waste you need to be removed, |
❌
Limited bin sizes available |
❌
Limited collection abilities – can only take up to a set amount of rubbish |
❌
You’re limited by the size of vehicle and number of trips you can take |
| No access issues | ✔ | ❌
Not allowed to place skip bin on council strip or steep driveway |
❌
Unsafe to carry rubbish up steep access to place on council cleanup pile |
❌
Unsafe to carry rubbish up steep access to place on council cleanup pile |
11 Benefits of household rubbish removal services vs other alternatives
Let’s take a closer look at the advantages of using a professional household rubbish removal service compared to the alternatives of hiring a skip bin, booking a council clean up or taking your rubbish to the tip.
1. Fast and convenient service
With household rubbish removal your rubbish is collected as quickly as possible, at a time when it is convenient for you, with no mess left behind.
There’s no need to wait for a skip bin to be delivered and then collected or waiting months for your allocated council cleanup date.
2. Cost-effective collection
Rubbish removal services are usually more cost-effective than renting a skip bin, especially if you have different types of waste. As skip bins have restrictions on the kinds of waste that can be put into one bin, you might have to hire more than one skip if you have different types of rubbish.
With skip bins you pay a fixed rental fee for space in a skip bin that you might not end up using. And if you don’t use all the space, you’ll often end up paying for your neighbour’s rubbish when they start filling your skip with their trash!
Although council clean up is a free service, it can be a false economy as you’ll have to pay to dispose of the rubbish the council won’t collect, or even worse, to dispose of other people’s rubbish dumped on your pile!
3. Hand-loaded by professionals and safer for you
Rather than putting out your back by having to handload and transport your waste to the local tip, lifting heavy items into a skip bin or having to haul rubbish onto your front lawn, rubbish removal services do all the heavy lifting for you. They come to your home and lift, move and take away all of your rubbish – you don’t have to do a thing.
This can be particularly useful if you have large or heavy items that you would struggle to move on your own or if you don’t own a vehicle large enough to transport your rubbish to the tip.
4. Time saving
Rubbish removal services are experts in waste disposal, using specialised equipment and techniques to remove your rubbish quickly and efficiently. This can be faster and more effective than using a skip bin or relying on council clean-ups, particularly if you have a large amount of waste to dispose of.
Another benefit of rubbish removal services is that they can save you time sorting and disposing of your waste, particularly if you have items that will need to be recycled in different places or disposed of in various ways.
And as for taking your rubbish to the local tip – aren’t there better things you’d like to be doing on your days off work?
5. Flexible dates and times
Council clean-ups are typically scheduled on a set date or time that suits the council worker, not you!
With rubbish removal services you can schedule the collection of your waste at a time that suits you instead, particularly useful if you have a busy schedule.
6. Environmentally-friendly
Better for the environment, rubbish removal services sort your waste into recyclable and non-recyclable materials, disposing of each type of waste in the most appropriate and environmentally-friendly way.
With council kerb-side clean-ups all of your rubbish gets crushed together in the truck, ending up in landfill. So if you want to recycle you’ll need to do it first and then deliver different items to different places for recycling. Even at your local tip, it’s up to you to take your rubbish to the different recycling sections.
7. More hygienic and less hazardous
Rubbish removal same day service ensures your waste is not lying around attracting vermin or, even worse, becoming a fire hazard!
The rubbish removal staff have the expertise and the equipment to safely and hygienically remove and dispose of rubbish that is not permitted to be disposed of in skip bins, on council clean-ups or even at your local tip.
8. Saves space
With a rubbish removal service, you don’t need to have a bulky skip bin taking up space in your front yard and killing your front lawn or blocking your garage.
A rubbish removal service also removes the need to stockpile large piles of rubbish in your backyard or garage while you wait for your allocated council clean up date or try to find time to visit the tip.
Your rubbish is collected quickly, cleanly and efficiently, with no mess left behind.
9. All rubbish removed in one go
A rubbish removal service can take away almost any type of rubbish for you, including items that council cleanup rejects or you are not permitted to place into skip bins.
Any non-hazardous materials that can be lifted into a rubbish removal truck will be taken, including old furniture, white goods, mattresses, bed frames, packaging waste, unwanted household items e-waste, green waste and household/business garbage.
10. Suitable for all sizes of jobs
Because you only pay for the amount of waste you need to be removed, a rubbish removal service is ideal for all sized jobs, both big and small.
Council cleanups have limited collection abilities – which is why they restrict the size of your pile of rubbish – and your ability to take your rubbish to the tip will be restricted by the size of your vehicle and the number of trips you are prepared to make.
Smaller rubbish collection jobs are often just not worth the expense of hiring a skip bin, so why not call a rubbish collection service instead and get it removed the same day?
11. No access restrictions
Skip bins can’t be delivered to many residential locations due to access restrictions such as steep driveways, narrow driveways or not having a front lawn. Skip companies are also not allowed to deliver skip bins to the council strip outside your home – they have to be delivered to and left on private property.
If your home is on a block with a steep or narrow driveway, do you really want to be carrying all that rubbish up and down your driveway yourself to put it outside for council cleanup or to take it to the tip?
A rubbish removal service is able to remove any size of rubbish from your home, regardless of the size or the steepness of your driveway access.
The most cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to dispose of your household rubbish!
If you need to dispose of household rubbish our team of professionals will do all the heavy lifting for you, so you literally don’t have to do a thing!
You only pay for what is removed and your rubbish will be removed efficiently, quickly and sorted in an eco-friendly way, with no mess left behind.
Contact the friendly team at Rov’s Rubbish Removal today, to find out how we can deliver fast, reliable and time-saving, same-day rubbish removal services for all types of household rubbish removal across Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains.
