Plasterboard in skips

[Grandad Gaz]

I noticed from the ever growing list of things you can't put in your skips that plasterboard is now included.

Why on earth is that?

[B17NNS]

Because they contain gypsum which even though it is extracted from the ground apparently contaminates the ground.

Not all skip companies are the same. The ones I use happily take plasterboard. It is general building waste afterall.

[Trommel]

Produces gas in landfill.

[arfur daley]

chuck it in the bottom of the skip.

[Grandad Gaz]

B17NNS said:

It is general building waste afterall.

That's just what I thought. How do you get rid of it if the skip company won't take it?

[Trommel]

Council recycling sites have a skip for it (at least the ones I've been to have).

[B17NNS]

Grandad Gaz said:

How do you get rid of it if the skip company won't take it?

Some local tips will take it.

Tell the skip company you won't be putting any more business their way due to this policy.

[arfur daley]

overfill your skip with soil and big doors up the side just to get your own back.

[PGM]

Our skip company took it no problem.

Then they sent a bill for £100 for it!

I complained that it had been fly tipped and got a credit

[plug]

At work we now have to have a differant skip just for plasterboard.

[scirocco265]

PGM said:

Our skip company took it no problem.

Then they sent a bill for £100 for it!

I complained that it had been fly tipped and got a credit

[xllifts]

It is now classed as hazardous waste, and should be treated with care when handling and disposed of in a controlled manner.
Just done HSE CITB course on this sort of thing, if you actually look at the stuff we all work with, we'd all commit suicide at the everyday carcinogens we expose ourselves to.

[andy43]

xllifts said:

It is now classed as hazardous waste, and should be treated with care when handling and disposed of in a controlled manner.
Just done HSE CITB course on this sort of thing, if you actually look at the stuff we all work with, we'd all commit suicide at the everyday carcinogens we expose ourselves to.

Quite right, 'specially if it's still got the plasterboard nails sticking out...
I'm with Arfur on this one.

[Grandad Gaz]

xllifts said:

It is now classed as hazardous waste, and should be treated with care when handling and disposed of in a controlled manner.
Just done HSE CITB course on this sort of thing, if you actually look at the stuff we all work with, we'd all commit suicide at the everyday carcinogens we expose ourselves to.

In that case, 99.9% of all builders will die from lung disease!

[xllifts]

Grandad Gaz said:

xllifts said:

It is now classed as hazardous waste, and should be treated with care when handling and disposed of in a controlled manner.
Just done HSE CITB course on this sort of thing, if you actually look at the stuff we all work with, we'd all commit suicide at the everyday carcinogens we expose ourselves to.

In that case, 99.9% of all builders will die from lung disease!

Absolutely, the figures that have been bandied about are that we should reach the peak of work related diseases in the next 20 years and with the I can't fart rules in place we should then see a dramatic reduction in cases.
Whilst I agree we are HSE mad looking at the health side of it I can see in PARTS why they have gone overboard.

Back to your original question, its all to do with the dust particles of quartz silca which has the same effect as asbestos to the lungs over a period of time.
But they don't seem worried about the dryliners or tackers which is strange to say the least as they still install the stuff today.

[mk1fan]

It can't go to landfill sites anymore so if you need a few sheets and not bothered about a few nicks and knocks you can get it for free from the manufacturers - if you live near a plant and have a van to collect.

[mrmaggit]

mk1fan said:

It can't go to landfill sites anymore so if you need a few sheets and not bothered about a few nicks and knocks you can get it for free from the manufacturers - if you live near a plant and have a van to collect.

You try that at BG at East Leake and see how far you get.

The bods that work there come to us to get their plasterboard.

[mk1fan]

must be who you know then.