Dumping in Hampshire!
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Not sure where to post this but...
I've been doing a spot of DIY and decided to take the old toilet and cistern to the council dump along with a bunch of other stuff. To cut a long story short they have started charging people who want to recycle rubble, soil, etc. They wanted £2.50 for each of the toilet, cistern and cistern lid!
Now I have 2 objections to this, firstly I pay quite a lot of council tax every month which I think should cover this, secondly many people will refuse to pay and instead will fly tip it, which will cost the council to clear up.
Is it just Hampshire that are so myopic or is this a national thing?
I've been doing a spot of DIY and decided to take the old toilet and cistern to the council dump along with a bunch of other stuff. To cut a long story short they have started charging people who want to recycle rubble, soil, etc. They wanted £2.50 for each of the toilet, cistern and cistern lid!
Now I have 2 objections to this, firstly I pay quite a lot of council tax every month which I think should cover this, secondly many people will refuse to pay and instead will fly tip it, which will cost the council to clear up.
Is it just Hampshire that are so myopic or is this a national thing?
Wiltshire is managing its refuse costs by closing each recycling centre 2 days per week (so there's a 7 day service but you might have a 40 mile round trip - very green). Net result is as expected, an increase in fly tipping.
Reality is subsidised buses and various other services that would cause uproar if they were removed have to be paid for somehow.
Reality is subsidised buses and various other services that would cause uproar if they were removed have to be paid for somehow.
albatross said:
Not sure where to post this but...
I've been doing a spot of DIY and decided to take the old toilet and cistern to the council dump along with a bunch of other stuff. To cut a long story short they have started charging people who want to recycle rubble, soil, etc. They wanted £2.50 for each of the toilet, cistern and cistern lid!
Now I have 2 objections to this, firstly I pay quite a lot of council tax every month which I think should cover this, secondly many people will refuse to pay and instead will fly tip it, which will cost the council to clear up.
Is it just Hampshire that are so myopic or is this a national thing?
Your council tax barely covers 1/4 of the expenditure that central government forces on local government.I've been doing a spot of DIY and decided to take the old toilet and cistern to the council dump along with a bunch of other stuff. To cut a long story short they have started charging people who want to recycle rubble, soil, etc. They wanted £2.50 for each of the toilet, cistern and cistern lid!
Now I have 2 objections to this, firstly I pay quite a lot of council tax every month which I think should cover this, secondly many people will refuse to pay and instead will fly tip it, which will cost the council to clear up.
Is it just Hampshire that are so myopic or is this a national thing?
Last time I went to the tip I got a leaflet saying mine would start charging for building waste and soil / rubble from September (Surrery).
Think you were allowed one free bag of rubble a day or maybe a week - can't remember. It does seem a tad short sighted given the existing issues with fly tipping.
Think you were allowed one free bag of rubble a day or maybe a week - can't remember. It does seem a tad short sighted given the existing issues with fly tipping.
Eric Mc said:
albatross said:
Not sure where to post this but...
I've been doing a spot of DIY and decided to take the old toilet and cistern to the council dump along with a bunch of other stuff. To cut a long story short they have started charging people who want to recycle rubble, soil, etc. They wanted £2.50 for each of the toilet, cistern and cistern lid!
Now I have 2 objections to this, firstly I pay quite a lot of council tax every month which I think should cover this, secondly many people will refuse to pay and instead will fly tip it, which will cost the council to clear up.
Is it just Hampshire that are so myopic or is this a national thing?
Your council tax barely covers 1/4 of the expenditure that central government forces on local government.I've been doing a spot of DIY and decided to take the old toilet and cistern to the council dump along with a bunch of other stuff. To cut a long story short they have started charging people who want to recycle rubble, soil, etc. They wanted £2.50 for each of the toilet, cistern and cistern lid!
Now I have 2 objections to this, firstly I pay quite a lot of council tax every month which I think should cover this, secondly many people will refuse to pay and instead will fly tip it, which will cost the council to clear up.
Is it just Hampshire that are so myopic or is this a national thing?
davek_964 said:
Last time I went to the tip I got a leaflet saying mine would start charging for building waste and soil / rubble from September (Surrery).
Think you were allowed one free bag of rubble a day or maybe a week - can't remember. It does seem a tad short sighted given the existing issues with fly tipping.
It's per day.Think you were allowed one free bag of rubble a day or maybe a week - can't remember. It does seem a tad short sighted given the existing issues with fly tipping.
I sent then an email asking what size of bag it was, because their website only had a 2-dimensional size mentioned on it, and you kinda need a third dimension to get the volume. I suggested that I could make a bag that was in their alloted dimensions, but 2m long...
"It's a builders bag" was their reply, and generally it means 25kg of rubble.
They started charging in West Sussex this weekend too, though £4 a bag.
Though one thing I thought strange about the leaflet provided to explain about the new charges, is that then mention plasterboard on the first page, as £4 per sheet or rubble bag, but then don't list plasterboard as a chargeable item on the next page, so how does that work ?
Though one thing I thought strange about the leaflet provided to explain about the new charges, is that then mention plasterboard on the first page, as £4 per sheet or rubble bag, but then don't list plasterboard as a chargeable item on the next page, so how does that work ?
I'm not sure about other parts of Surrey but they're charging for this in North Surrey (Spelthorne) now.
I can't believe that the council think it'll work, the area is already plagued with fly tipping and a bone-idle council who seem to be incapable of clearing it up. Charging people to dump rubbish when they've already paid a load of council tax will just make the fly tipping problem worse and piss all the local residents off!
I can't believe that the council think it'll work, the area is already plagued with fly tipping and a bone-idle council who seem to be incapable of clearing it up. Charging people to dump rubbish when they've already paid a load of council tax will just make the fly tipping problem worse and piss all the local residents off!
Bristol spark said:
No charge in South gloucestershire yet.
However they have just installed ANPR cameras and and having to register your cars with them!
I assume so they can track how often your dumping?
If your not registered, alarms go off as you drive in and you get pounced on!
Funny how they can always manage to afford them isnt it However they have just installed ANPR cameras and and having to register your cars with them!
I assume so they can track how often your dumping?
If your not registered, alarms go off as you drive in and you get pounced on!
Cupramax said:
ecsrobin said:
Drive to Dorset then may be the solution?
Dorset require paper ID with local address... Recent utility bill etc.Drive down any Dorset Road and find some flytipping.
Search for a utility bill in the rubbish
Use that on the visits to the tip
OR post it on here and let everyone photocoy it
Jimmyarm said:
I'm in Hampshire and read about this.
As we are about to start producing a reasonable amount of what they class as chargeable waste, i have made an area on the drive to store it and then shovel as much as I can into the wheelie bin every two weeks.
Saves me a trip to the dump.
I did similar when we had a new kitchen installed.As we are about to start producing a reasonable amount of what they class as chargeable waste, i have made an area on the drive to store it and then shovel as much as I can into the wheelie bin every two weeks.
Saves me a trip to the dump.
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dsLuckily I had somewhere to keep the old hob, oven and extractor hood which, over a period of weeks, were then reduced to A4 size pieces courtesy of an angle grinder, and shipped out in our wheelie bin every Monday morning.
Small victories.
Crossflow Kid said:
Luckily I had somewhere to keep the old hob, oven and extractor hood which, over a period of weeks, were then reduced to A4 size pieces courtesy of an angle grinder, and shipped out in our wheelie bin every Monday morning.
Small victories.
A few years ago a mate [allegedly, cough] scrapped a whole Land Rover the same way... at the time he said he was curious to see how the bin lorry coped with the leaf springs Small victories.
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