'Recyling centres' aka tips

[Sammo123]

samdale said:

Is it? I guess the convenience of booking a collection whenever you like is good but that looks a lot smaller than an 8 yard skip for the same price!.

Skips sound like a bargain round your way! An 8 yard skip around here (Epsom) is around £350!!

[B'stard Child]

Sammo123 said:

samdale said:

Is it? I guess the convenience of booking a collection whenever you like is good but that looks a lot smaller than an 8 yard skip for the same price!.

Skips sound like a bargain round your way! An 8 yard skip around here (Epsom) is around £350!!

£150 round here for 8 yrd but the mini-skips seem to have more supply than demand and as a result it's a bit cut throat

[Sammo123]

My local dump can be a bit hit and miss. They're only open limited hours which means there's always a half hour wait to get in. However once you're in they will let you dump a reasonable amount of stuff. I know they've introduced charges for certain bits of diy waste recently although I haven't seen how much they charge.

[B'stard Child]

Sammo123 said:

My local dump can be a bit hit and miss. They're only open limited hours which means there's always a half hour wait to get in. However once you're in they will let you dump a reasonable amount of stuff. I know they've introduced charges for certain bits of diy waste recently although I haven't seen how much they charge.

My local one the charges are as follows (All based on either single item or 80L bag equivilent)

Rubble £3
Timber £3
Flat Glass £5
Plasterboard £9
General waste £5
Tyres £4 each
Metals - Free

Rubble is classified as sinks, toilets, bricks, concrete, stones and tiles (wall or roof)

Timber is classified as Kitchen Units, fitted furniture, doors, laminate flooring and floorboards, sheds, fence panels or fencing, decking or garden furniture

Flat glass is classified as glass from windows or doors, greenhouses and shower screens

Plasterboard is classified as plasterboard, artex and plaster

General waste is classified as including rooflng felt, plastic waste, fiberglass insulation baths and soil

[surveyor]

We had the ivy removed from the front of our house. Which apparently did not include removing it. Left as a huge car sized pile on the drive...

Eventually borrowed a trailer - felt guilty after each visit as we left an ivy trail from the trailer to the skip after each visit. We finally drove them to asking for our permit for the trailer on the 3rd visit... Fortunately that was job done and we were out of there..

[Andehh]

hyphen said:

Guys, this is one where you need to raise it to local papers, complain to councillors, raise on social media constantly and what not. If you just accept it then it won't change back.

Fight it, I would if my local tip started doing all this rubbish.

Likewise, straight to my MP & councillors.


Ours is a pretty good, except when I took two fly-tipped tyres to it on my last run (doing my bit...) and being charged £10 to dispose of them. I did have a laugh with the chap as I emptied my car of change & monies to cover it.

No good deed...

Edited by Andehh on Saturday 21st April 09:36

[ChevronB19]

Bizarre. Mine is open 8-6 seven days a week and take pretty much anything. If you want to take a van, so long as you’re not trade, all you have to do is apply online and you get a code.

https://www.cumbria.gov.uk/planning-environment/wa...

[CoolHands]

How can they be charging you for timber? It’s fking ridiculous

[TRIUMPHBULLET]

I wait till its pissing down,the idle bds won't come out their portakabin.
The other thing I also do is make sure that no trace of my address/personal details are usable.

[Blue62]

I visited my local tip in East Devon a few weeks ago and threw in a 1m long piece of plastic trunking that I found lying around the garage. When I tried to throw it into the container for plastics I was told that it was likely to be a BT trunking and that I would incur a £5 charge, so I took it home with me, cut it in two and put it in my general waste bin. I

I moved here from the Midlands a few months ago and can't believe just how much hassle I now have to go through to dispose of rubbish. I've no objection to doing my bit for the environment but we have 4 different bins and any tins or bottles have to be cleaned before being disposed of and to cap it all there's no garden waste at all, for that I have to pay £45 per year for the additional benefit. All this for a council tax bill of £3k. Rant over.

[KungFuPanda]

My local tip on the outskirts of Manchester City Centre accept:

"Asbestos, Batteries, Cans, Cardboard, Cell Batteries, Computer Monitors, Fluorescent Tubes, Fridge/Freezer, Gas Bottles, Glass, Green Waste, Non Ferrous Scrap, Oil, Paper, Plastic Bottles, Rubble, Scrap Metal, Textiles, TVs, Tyres, Wood"

Pretty much covers everything.

[anonymous-user]

I'll throw my hat in the ring and say that I really don't mind paying to dispose of various things.

I don't think I have the right to create and dispose of as much rubbish as I like. Yes it often seems a little inconsistent, but paying a few quid to get rid of piles of rubbish is no bad thing.

[WindyCommon]

ThatGuyWhoDoesStuff said:

I'll throw my hat in the ring and say that I really don't mind paying to dispose of various things.

I don't think I have the right to create and dispose of as much rubbish as I like. Yes it often seems a little inconsistent, but paying a few quid to get rid of piles of rubbish is no bad thing.

I agree. However, have you not already paid for waste disposal in your council tax? If not, how much of a discount did you receive when the service previously provided was replaced by the PAYG version?

[Nickyboy]

aka_kerrly said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Anything in a black bin liner flung in the "un-recycleable" waste" bin

Nailed it.

Ours opens any bin liners you chuck in the skip, now they charge for pretty much everything. Everything goes in my wheelie bin now, cut up, wrapped up whenever needed.

[FourWheelDrift]

Simpo Two said:

Was just checking the opening times of my local tip, and read:

'What you cannot bring to recycling centres:
Asbestos
Chemicals and other toxic substances
Clinical waste
Dead animals
DIY waste including hardcore, plasterboard, tiles, bathroom and kitchen units and doors
Fireworks, ammunition and explosives
Fuel
Gas cylinders
Hazardous waste
Japanese knotweed
Landlord's waste
Pesticides
Poisons
Trade or commercial waste'

So apart from garden waste, which I pay extra for anyway, what CAN I dispose of? When I re-did my bathroom and kitchen 10 years ago I was able to get rid of all the wreckage at the tip, no problem. That is what tips are for. Where would I get rid of it now? And then they complain that fly-tipping is on the increase!

The only things you can dump now are the things the trash hobbits can retrieve and sell on.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/team-blog/2017/0...

https://www.businesswaste.co.uk/theft-from-rubbish...

[V8mate]

WindyCommon said:

ThatGuyWhoDoesStuff said:

I'll throw my hat in the ring and say that I really don't mind paying to dispose of various things.

I don't think I have the right to create and dispose of as much rubbish as I like. Yes it often seems a little inconsistent, but paying a few quid to get rid of piles of rubbish is no bad thing.

I agree. However, have you not already paid for waste disposal in your council tax? If not, how much of a discount did you receive when the service previously provided was replaced by the PAYG version?

More likely, the cash they saved went towards avoiding an increase in local taxes for the plethora of care and education services which didn't exist 30 years ago.

[StanleyT]

I live next to a local council ump. Sorry, environmental reclaimation centre.

I am not allowed to walk in, even when there are no cars queing with my wheelbarrow full of garden waste (which I know damm well is sold onto a composting / incinerator / biohippyheat processing firm). When I tried it I had to stop before the entrance for my "council mandated" bking from the chief skip rat of the day. This involved me watching him read from a card from his pocket and then him turning the card to me and asking me to point in the manner shown to the adjacent CCTV. I suspect somewhere there are a load of skip rats laughing at us daft Nor'ners doing Nazi salutes on CCTV.....

I borrowed a friend's LS Barbarian. We drove in with the wheelbarrow in the back.

That was acceptable.

Next trip, with drove in with me having laid down in the flatbed, to raise "from the bed" and lift and trip said wheelbarrow.

That was acceptable. x5

Final trip, head skip rat gave in and told me there was a little known procedure where you could get a walk in permit for £2.50 from the council for a year. However they (EWC recycling) were told not to let people know as the council rathered people paid £60 for "green" garden recycling bins.

Anyway, once there was a local press story about the garden waste being used for heat recovery, rather than being made into compost for council properties I decided to follow toot-sweet and invested in a decent incinerator bin which I use to partially slow cook sealed food - e.g. jacket potatos over a long low heat.

StanleyT - saving the environment one potato at a time! And saving £60 by burning all his burnable waste, including cardboard (Amazon cardboard is the best kindling I have ever come across, old wood, halogen light bulbs for the colour they add to the flame)!

[dhutch]

I need to write to my local lot, having been their with bugger all waste, just trying to tidy up a bit amid selling the house.

Bit of rubble and a few tiles, that will be £3 a bag.
Half a gravel board, would be another £3 for same skip.
Then literally a few 1x2 foot plasterboard off cuts, can't take that at all.

So I said, surely people will just filter it into the wheelie bin which will cost more, but as said, it's now subcontracted out and they don't have the budget to cover anything that would cost the sun contactor money.

Such is the beauty of a low-tax government who insist on austerity and driving down the living standards of those who don't have money to pay for things.


Daniel

[mickk]

I think I'll start digging a huge hole in my garden, anyone want to buy some soil?

[Norfolkit]

mickk said:

I think I'll start digging a huge hole in my garden, anyone want to buy some soil?

Take it to the tip.