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Last year Queensland councils collected enough illegally dumped waste to fill more than 1,000 garbage trucks. In outer suburban areas such as Logan and Ipswich, small council teams are tasked with finding those responsible for dumping old furniture, car tyres and toxic industrial waste.

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00:02Public eyesores littered beside roads and on vacant land across the country.
00:07When waste is dumped and abandoned, its local council workers called to investigate.
00:13I think a lot of it can be very opportunistic as well.
00:16People trying to save $20 or whatever the dump fee is.
00:21This is one of the more common discarded items.
00:24Worn out wheels dumped because disposal fees are charged per tyre.
00:30Last year, getting rid of illegal waste cost Ipswich ratepayers more than $42,000.
00:36Local councils and health officials have told us most offenders do the wrong thing,
00:40allegedly because they're lazy.
00:42But here in Logan, charities are coming in contact with the human side of the problem.
00:47Some of this broken furniture doesn't belong to Bruce Laker.
00:51He's taking it to the dump on behalf of someone he supports through the St Vincent de Paul Society.
00:56He says when people get evicted for not keeping up with their rent,
01:00they're left with piles of waste without the means or money to dump it properly.
01:05They will try to get rid of it as much as they can.
01:09But a lot of times they'll just leave it behind.
01:12It's much easier to just leave it.
01:15The Ipswich Council says it's tried to make waste disposal easy.
01:19We've got quite a few services that people can use for free or is highly subsidised.
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