An overwhelmingly negative response has met Monday night's decision by Dubbo City Council to have a trial of the proposed three-bin system.
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Councillors voted to have a three-month pilot of the bins, which would include trialling both a weekly collection of general waste and a fortnightly pick up for cost comparison.
As well as a trial, councillors also agreed to support a pensioner rebate if the new system was introduced.
The introduction of a new bin is expected to cost an additional $63 per service per annum, if general waste and recycling is collected fortnightly and the organics bin weekly.
However, the Daily Liberal Facebook page was flooded with comments from Dubbo residents reiterating their stance against another bin.
"Why can't a get a rebate too?" Ben Bailey said.
"We are a low income family and we don't need it, it's like giving me a third wheel for my motorbike."
Both Charlie McAllister and Melissa Fenton raised issues with the smell of leaving nappies in a bin for a fortnight.
"So we will only have general emptied fortnightly? So are councillors going to house the general bins at their houses with nappies sitting for two weeks?" Ms McAllister said.
Ms Fenton said with twin nine-month-olds it wasn't going to be pretty at her house after filling a bin with two weeks' worth of nappies.
On Monday, councillors Ben Shields, Greg Mohr and Bill Kelly each said everyone they had spoken to was against the third bin.
For once council needed to listen to ratepayers, Craig Penell said.
"Council sort opinions on what the residents wanted and they said no, yet council is still going ahead with the trial. To all Dubbo City Councillors read our lips, we don't want it."
Amid all the negative comments, Des Lang said the three bin system had worked well in city areas for more than 20 years.
Dubbo mayor Mathew Dickerson said at the end of the three-month trial, council would take the results into consideration and determine whether to proceed to the next stage of development.