A major search will begin at two Queensland landfill sites for the remains of missing woman Lesley Trotter.

Police believe the retired teacher’s body was inside a wheelie bin near her Toowong unit and taken away by rubbish collectors on March 28.

The waste, along with the 78-year-old’s remains, was then taken to a facility in Nudgee, where 22 other trucks also dumped their loads.

The rubbish was then compressed and taken by six other trucks to two separate dumps at Rochedale and Swanbank in Ipswich.

Today reporter Andrea Crothers told Luke Bradnam areas at both sites have been quarantined as police look to begin their search in coming days.

“There’s a number of challenges ahead of them because they currently don’t have any suspects in this,” she said.

“The street in Toowong where her unit was, where they believe her body was dumped inside that wheelie bin, there’s limited CCTV along there, which is making things difficult for them.”

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Detective Superintendent Andrew Massingham told Bill McDonald while police are treating the death as suspicious, “we can’t rule out a tragic accident”.

“Ms Trotter was an avid collector of disposable waste and the recycling of waste,” he said.

“She would be in and around these bins very frequently and certainly, would interact with them in a number of different ways during that process.”

Mr Massingham said

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