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Strictly speaking the bins are for the use of residents, but isn’t the absent Owner/Landlord doing you all a favour by keeping the Common Property in a state of good repair?
If the Owners Corporation (O/C) did as you suggest and engaged the services of a gardener, then sure they’d take the green waste away, the O/C and indirectly all Owners / Landlords would pay for that service, and you’d all see that increase in their Strata Levies reflected in your rent/s.
As an Owner, your unofficial “gardener” doesn’t need residents’ permission to be on Common Areas, but why not place a polite and personalised note on the bins and on the security door thanking her for the work that she does, and asking her to perhaps spread the green waste amongst all the bins so that residents can more easily compact it and to remind her of the need to keep the security door closed?