'Recyling centres' aka tips
Discussion
V8mate said:
No recycling centres have an issue with low level DIY: painting, decorating, a bit of carpet or wood flooring etc.
Less and less IME. FIL took a small carrier bag of broken tiles to the dump. "That's £3 sir". Hardly a full bathroom refurb..!
My local place is OK, but has now blocked off the containers where you could put any sort of hardcore/plasterboard/ceramics. You can only access it with a permit.
The trick definitely is to game the non-recyclable waste. I keep telling myself that, after this house renovation is complete, I'll become a responsible recycler again. But what's the point if the goal posts keep moving?
No wonder the sign at my local tip showing the % of waste recycled has changed from the 90% to the low 70s....
OMITN said:
V8mate said:
No recycling centres have an issue with low level DIY: painting, decorating, a bit of carpet or wood flooring etc.
Less and less IME. FIL took a small carrier bag of broken tiles to the dump. "That's £3 sir". Hardly a full bathroom refurb..!
My local place is OK, but has now blocked off the containers where you could put any sort of hardcore/plasterboard/ceramics. You can only access it with a permit.
The trick definitely is to game the non-recyclable waste. I keep telling myself that, after this house renovation is complete, I'll become a responsible recycler again. But what's the point if the goal posts keep moving?
No wonder the sign at my local tip showing the % of waste recycled has changed from the 90% to the low 70s....
herewego said:
OMITN said:
V8mate said:
No recycling centres have an issue with low level DIY: painting, decorating, a bit of carpet or wood flooring etc.
Less and less IME. FIL took a small carrier bag of broken tiles to the dump. "That's £3 sir". Hardly a full bathroom refurb..!
My local place is OK, but has now blocked off the containers where you could put any sort of hardcore/plasterboard/ceramics. You can only access it with a permit.
The trick definitely is to game the non-recyclable waste. I keep telling myself that, after this house renovation is complete, I'll become a responsible recycler again. But what's the point if the goal posts keep moving?
No wonder the sign at my local tip showing the % of waste recycled has changed from the 90% to the low 70s....
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who goes to the tip more than once a year is a weirdo.
herewego said:
OMITN said:
V8mate said:
No recycling centres have an issue with low level DIY: painting, decorating, a bit of carpet or wood flooring etc.
Less and less IME. FIL took a small carrier bag of broken tiles to the dump. "That's £3 sir". Hardly a full bathroom refurb..!
My local place is OK, but has now blocked off the containers where you could put any sort of hardcore/plasterboard/ceramics. You can only access it with a permit.
The trick definitely is to game the non-recyclable waste. I keep telling myself that, after this house renovation is complete, I'll become a responsible recycler again. But what's the point if the goal posts keep moving?
No wonder the sign at my local tip showing the % of waste recycled has changed from the 90% to the low 70s....
V8mate said:
B'stard Child said:
Exactly - that would go into my household waste bin. Just had two rooms re-carpeted with underlay - looking forward to seeing what the local place try and charge for getting rid as it’s not on the list of specified chargable items
They can't charge for that.B'stard Child said:
V8mate said:
B'stard Child said:
Exactly - that would go into my household waste bin. Just had two rooms re-carpeted with underlay - looking forward to seeing what the local place try and charge for getting rid as it’s not on the list of specified chargable items
They can't charge for that.V8mate said:
B'stard Child said:
V8mate said:
B'stard Child said:
Exactly - that would go into my household waste bin. Just had two rooms re-carpeted with underlay - looking forward to seeing what the local place try and charge for getting rid as it’s not on the list of specified chargable items
They can't charge for that.B'stard Child said:
V8mate said:
B'stard Child said:
V8mate said:
B'stard Child said:
Exactly - that would go into my household waste bin. Just had two rooms re-carpeted with underlay - looking forward to seeing what the local place try and charge for getting rid as it’s not on the list of specified chargable items
They can't charge for that.
V8mate said:
Roof off; stack it in the passenger seat and out onto the rear deck. Easily done in one trip
Hessian backed carpet - nasty on leather so that option is outNot that I haven't moved long loads before with it
Bloody 7 series doesn't have fold down rear seats or even a ski hatch such a useless load carrier
V8mate said:
Don't question the motives of OAPs. They're a bloody menace... so many of them come almost *every day* with just one tiny thing, then stop for a chat with the staff as well, causing further congestion.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who goes to the tip more than once a year is a weirdo.
There are knobbers on here that have "tip runs" as requirements of any car they buy. My car almost bends the needle on the partical-o-meter, but I never gave going to the tip a moments thought when I bought it.As far as I'm concerned, anyone who goes to the tip more than once a year is a weirdo.
Back on topic, it's no wonder the country is covered in fly tipped rubbish.
Our local tip has got silly as well. No vans of any type no matter what waste or how much. I took down some empty children toy boxes and some stuff like an old hoover, old jet wash and was refused entry.
I went home, put it in my tvr boot and drove down with the boot open
they couldn't believe it but couldn't refuse as it was in a car.
Thing i don't get is why the f
k don't the councils start recycling properly and on a proper scale.
Im in the building trade and the old saying 'theres money in muck' is very true.
Hardcore goes on to be crushed and sold as various grades of crushed concrete, from crusher run to proper clean ticketed type 1.
Mud (well soil they claim) is screened into topsoil
Metals have obvious value.
Plastics are recycled along with glass. Im not sure what happens to timber? id imagine its either burnt or recycled (probably not legally burnt).
Garden waste is made into composts.
Stuff like plasterboard, oil, asbestos etc I'm not sure what happens to.
What i want to know is why don't the tips take commercial waste, charge the same as everyone else does and make proper money out of it? Or is the proper money i see people making too small for the gravy waste council train?
Even tipping for free, theres money to be made in most of it.
I went home, put it in my tvr boot and drove down with the boot open
they couldn't believe it but couldn't refuse as it was in a car.Thing i don't get is why the f
k don't the councils start recycling properly and on a proper scale.Im in the building trade and the old saying 'theres money in muck' is very true.
Hardcore goes on to be crushed and sold as various grades of crushed concrete, from crusher run to proper clean ticketed type 1.
Mud (well soil they claim) is screened into topsoil
Metals have obvious value.
Plastics are recycled along with glass. Im not sure what happens to timber? id imagine its either burnt or recycled (probably not legally burnt).
Garden waste is made into composts.
Stuff like plasterboard, oil, asbestos etc I'm not sure what happens to.
What i want to know is why don't the tips take commercial waste, charge the same as everyone else does and make proper money out of it? Or is the proper money i see people making too small for the gravy waste council train?
Even tipping for free, theres money to be made in most of it.
m3jappa said:
Our local tip has got silly as well. No vans of any type no matter what waste or how much. I took down some empty children toy boxes and some stuff like an old hoover, old jet wash and was refused entry.
I went home, put it in my tvr boot and drove down with the boot open
Thing i don't get is why the fk don't the councils start recycling properly and on a proper scale.
What i want to know is why don't the tips take commercial waste, charge the same as everyone else does and make proper money out of it?
Even tipping for free, theres money to be made in most of it.
There isn't the way the Council run things.I went home, put it in my tvr boot and drove down with the boot open
Thing i don't get is why the f
k don't the councils start recycling properly and on a proper scale.What i want to know is why don't the tips take commercial waste, charge the same as everyone else does and make proper money out of it?
Even tipping for free, theres money to be made in most of it.
Our Tip is on a site of at least 1Ac and has at least 5 men (generally doing nothing) staffing it
Add in the cost of Landfill and I suspect it costs them in excess of £1M / yr to run
m3jappa said:
Thing i don't get is why the fk don't the councils start recycling properly and on a proper scale.
Im in the building trade and the old saying 'theres money in muck' is very true.
Hardcore goes on to be crushed and sold as various grades of crushed concrete, from crusher run to proper clean ticketed type 1.
Mud (well soil they claim) is screened into topsoil
Metals have obvious value.
Plastics are recycled along with glass. Im not sure what happens to timber? id imagine its either burnt or recycled (probably not legally burnt).
Garden waste is made into composts.
Stuff like plasterboard, oil, asbestos etc I'm not sure what happens to.
What i want to know is why don't the tips take commercial waste, charge the same as everyone else does and make proper money out of it? Or is the proper money i see people making too small for the gravy waste council train?
Even tipping for free, theres money to be made in most of it.
I don't know where you live or how effectively your council operates the sites you use, but whilst I can understand why you'd have the views you do, there are 'invisible' costs killing the value in most materials. Primarily the cost of moving the waste to a place of treatment or reprocessing, which is horrendous.k don't the councils start recycling properly and on a proper scale.Im in the building trade and the old saying 'theres money in muck' is very true.
Hardcore goes on to be crushed and sold as various grades of crushed concrete, from crusher run to proper clean ticketed type 1.
Mud (well soil they claim) is screened into topsoil
Metals have obvious value.
Plastics are recycled along with glass. Im not sure what happens to timber? id imagine its either burnt or recycled (probably not legally burnt).
Garden waste is made into composts.
Stuff like plasterboard, oil, asbestos etc I'm not sure what happens to.
What i want to know is why don't the tips take commercial waste, charge the same as everyone else does and make proper money out of it? Or is the proper money i see people making too small for the gravy waste council train?
Even tipping for free, theres money to be made in most of it.
Non-ferrous metals are the most lucrative material, but not much else derives an income exceeding its haulage cost at the point of delivery. So operations end up all cost by quite a margin.
Some recycling centres do take business waste. The main reason for avoiding it is the impact it has on the service provided to residents - by law, recycling centres exist for the benefit of residents, not businesses. Sites are often small and lack decent queuing, weighing and charging infrastructure for business users, without disrupting the flow for householders.
hyphen said:
B'stard Child said:
Bloody 7 series doesn't have fold down rear seats or even a ski hatch such a useless load carrier
BMW charge extra for folding I think, hence rare.(If it is - someone let me know as I'd discounted it as an option because of this!)
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