General News
19 November, 2025
Bins blight on highway
RUSTING cane bins have been a daily eyesore for hundreds of locals and visitors travelling between Port Douglas and Mossman along the Captain Cook Highway.
Graeme Pimlot, who lives in Port Douglas but works at Mossman Gorge, believes the ongoing blemish is having a negative effect, particularly on the visitor experience of tourists.
“The main road towards Mossman is used every day by many locals and tourists and the sight of these rusty bins is not a good look,” he said.
“Tourists use the road to go to Mossman Gorge, Mossman town or further afield to the Daintree rainforest” he said.
“The bins, that stretch from Killaloe up to the Julatten turn-off at South Mossman, have been around for months slowly deteriorating, getting covered in weeds or being vandalised with graffiti.”
A Douglas Shire Council spokesman said the cane bins remained the property of Mossman sugar mill and were currently the responsibility of the appointed liquidators. “Douglas Shire Council has been advocating for their removal,” he said.
On 20 November 2023, John Goggin of Worrells Cairns office was appointed administrator of the companies that comprised the Daintree Bio Precinct Group.
“I confirm the bins are in the process of being sold and will be removed in the near future,” he said.
“I have spoken to the council and the Department of Transport and Main Roads and kept them informed on this matter.”
With no actual timescales provided for the cane bin removal at this stage, locals and tourists will have to continue to endure this unsavoury sight.
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