Garbos walk off job in Brisbane

Rubbish truck drivers have gone on strike, refusing to collect bins across Brisbane over the sacking of an accident-prone colleague.

More than 130 drivers walked off the job on Wednesday morning, and are refusing to return to work.

The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission will hear the matter on Wednesday, after negotiations between the drivers' union and rubbish contractor SITA Environmental Solutions broke down.

Transport Workers Union Queensland branch secretary Hughie Williams said drivers planned to meet again at 5am (AEST) tomorrow to discuss their position.

He said drivers were very angry about the sacking of their colleague over some "minor accidents" he'd had.

Mr Williams said SITA expected drivers to meet unrealistic targets for bin collections, and that was a factor in drivers' accidents.

"These people are pushed beyond the normal levels, rushing around everywhere and from time to time they do have accidents," he told AAP.

"Because this driver had two or three accidents the company has seen fit to terminate him."

"The company should be looking at its own operations to ascertain what's causing this."

SITA spokesman Simon Gardner Lee said he expected the QIRC to order drivers back to work at 5am on Thursday.

"It's too late to have trucks out today. But residents should keep their bins out and we'll clear the backlog tomorrow," he said.

He said the issue of bin collection targets had been raised during Wednesday's talks but denied there was any broader problem.

"This is in relation to an individual. We are not having the same issue with other drivers," he said.

Mr Gardner Lee said the company decided to sack the driver after he had several accidents that saw him "crash into a number of third-party vehicles over a period of time".