Disposing of stuff
Discussion
OpulentBob said:
Surely they will say, "Here's the number of a waste disposal firm".
Household waste site is for household waste. I'm not sure how much success you'd have trying to argue that the interior of a car is "household".
But as above, I'd chop everything down to bin-size and take it to the tip without telling them what it is.
Technically household waste should cover anything you as a household/individual generate, as opposed to commercially generated waste. Household waste site is for household waste. I'm not sure how much success you'd have trying to argue that the interior of a car is "household".
But as above, I'd chop everything down to bin-size and take it to the tip without telling them what it is.
I'm informed by a usually reliable source that the current fashion for refusing or charging for household waste is on extremely dubious grounds - illegal was how it was actually described.
Just needs to be pushed harder.
In the meantime chop the bits up and stick them in the normal waste. Ideally in a few of the council bins.
Jonesy23 said:
OpulentBob said:
Surely they will say, "Here's the number of a waste disposal firm".
Household waste site is for household waste. I'm not sure how much success you'd have trying to argue that the interior of a car is "household".
But as above, I'd chop everything down to bin-size and take it to the tip without telling them what it is.
Technically household waste should cover anything you as a household/individual generate, as opposed to commercially generated waste. Household waste site is for household waste. I'm not sure how much success you'd have trying to argue that the interior of a car is "household".
But as above, I'd chop everything down to bin-size and take it to the tip without telling them what it is.
I'm informed by a usually reliable source that the current fashion for refusing or charging for household waste is on extremely dubious grounds - illegal was how it was actually described.
Just needs to be pushed harder.
In the meantime chop the bits up and stick them in the normal waste. Ideally in a few of the council bins.
As a rule of thumb, household waste includes those parts of your home which you might normally take with you when you move. So it does include clothes and plates and sofas. And it doesn't include doors and fitted kitchens and bathroom suites.
Car parts are certainly not household waste.
(I broke my bits up and put them out with the kerbside collection over several weeks when I built my track car
)
tty bucket seats out of my Defender and struggled to think of a way to get rid, put them on eBay at 99p start collection only and they went for £66 and a few pence 
My local council tip refuses to take anything that could be labelled as a 'car part', I've had the argument over a parcel shelf, no amount of reasoning that it was technically 'cardboard' was getting it in the paper skip so it got bent in half and put in my general waste wheelie bin.
I'd be trying to break stuff up small enough to fit in my bin or so it can be passed off as parts of a Dyson.
It amazes me when councils complain about fly tipping when they make it so hard to legally dispose of your crap, and unless you're taking an interior a week it's clearly not 'commercial waste'.
But leaving it on your drive way could work, we have a neighbour that leaves all manner of crap out there and within a day or two it's gone, and not really anything that would weigh in for much and we are on the end of a cul-de-sac so don't get any passing traffic.
I'd be trying to break stuff up small enough to fit in my bin or so it can be passed off as parts of a Dyson.
It amazes me when councils complain about fly tipping when they make it so hard to legally dispose of your crap, and unless you're taking an interior a week it's clearly not 'commercial waste'.
But leaving it on your drive way could work, we have a neighbour that leaves all manner of crap out there and within a day or two it's gone, and not really anything that would weigh in for much and we are on the end of a cul-de-sac so don't get any passing traffic.
I regularly use two local tips run by two different local councils (we live on the border). One is completely relaxed about what you dump (as long as you're not in a commercial type vehicle(, the others are complete Nazis, so much so that they'll apprehend anything they don't like before you can even get it out of the car.
In short, it might be worth trying a different tip.
In short, it might be worth trying a different tip.
STOP THE PRESS!
Solution found. Spoke to my local garage and they've done me proud. Will take all the stuff off my hands and shove it in a car to be scrapped - FOC! It might help that they have one of our cars in there for some serious work at the moment.
Our tip doesn't take paint, tyres etc. either. In fact, they heavily limit soil/hardcore, so not ideal when doing garden renovation. I do feel that fly tipping is likely to be higher when they make it more difficult. This is South Kesteven district council.
Solution found. Spoke to my local garage and they've done me proud. Will take all the stuff off my hands and shove it in a car to be scrapped - FOC! It might help that they have one of our cars in there for some serious work at the moment.
Our tip doesn't take paint, tyres etc. either. In fact, they heavily limit soil/hardcore, so not ideal when doing garden renovation. I do feel that fly tipping is likely to be higher when they make it more difficult. This is South Kesteven district council.
Edited by MJ85 on Monday 27th February 20:53
Next time you have something like this, if you don't mind driving an hour or so, come and use the tip near us, Brixworth Recycling Centre in Daventry District Council area. They take everything including paint, timber, hardcore, rubble, engine oil, car batteries, everything. Even better, if it can be recycled, they will. Whenever I take stuff, I separate metals and hard plastics as they're both recycled. They also have a reuse area so if there's anything that can be saved, they will. They're also very helpful and will help you unload if you're on your own and struggling. If you let me know in advance, I'll come and give you a hand as I only live a few minutes away. 
mr_spock said:
Hippo bags are quite useful for this. There are often special offers if you sign up for their newsletter.
One problem with Hippo bags (and skip hire firms I've looked at) is that they now have a list as long as your arm telling you what you're not allowed to dispose of.We were going to rent a skip to help clear out our loft and garage of stuff we've accumulated since we moved here a decade or so ago, and no longer need. But on reading the list, it seemed a lot of the stuff we wanted to get shot of (old paint tins, some broken small electrical items, old PC monitor, broken electric lawnmower etc.) wasn't permitted.
I understand the trick is to bury the "bad" stuff at the bottom beneath the "good" stuff, but it doesn't feel very honest
My usual way of disposing of stuff is bit by bit in the wheelie bin over a number of weeks. But the buggers at our local council have first halved the size of our general refuse bin, and then changed our collections from weekly to fortnightly - so its tougher than it used to be.
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