Local recycling centres
Discussion
StressedDave said:
Our County Council has just started a similar scheme, but it's aimed at vans and trailers over a certain size. There's absolutely no cost involved but you're limited to 12 visits per year with such vehicles. It's the work of a moment to input the registration and one of the blokes just wanders up with a phone, takes a picture and you get permission to dump and a nice e-mail from the Council telling you how many visits you've got left.
It's worked well on the one occasion i've used it, but then I've got an estate car and a house I'm not renovating, extending or otherwise generating mountains of s
t.
Have an almost identical scheme at my local tip (West Wilts Council), you get your paper council licence clipped each visit,thankfully the younger guys on duty don't bother most of the time It's worked well on the one occasion i've used it, but then I've got an estate car and a house I'm not renovating, extending or otherwise generating mountains of s
t.
For garden waste it used to be a corner of the tip where people used to dump their tree/hedge cuttings etc onto a pile making it nice and easy to empty builders bags/trailers etc. Now, in their ultimate wisdom they have removed this option and all garden waste must go in one of the large skips they have in place,this involves getting everything up a load of steps to put stuff in the skip!
SS2. said:
Install ANPR on the premise it will stop cross county recycling - is this really a major problem for the recycling centres?
We live on the edge of a county where the nearest city and recycling centre is in the next county. While it seems fair to limit users to county it does mean that people from the town I live in would be travelling 15.8 miles vs 7.6 miles to dump stuff. It doesn't make sense from an environmental point of view to double people's mileage in order to recycle.I tend to avoid using ours, its ok but usually full of folk offloading garden rubbish one twig at a time.
I smash most stuff up and decant it into the wheelie bin over time, wood gets burnt and anything like used oil I save for a visit to the tip. I have a "tip pending" area round the side of the house where its well out of the way.
Metal stuff gets saved up and I wait for the scrap man, not seen him for a bit though.
I smash most stuff up and decant it into the wheelie bin over time, wood gets burnt and anything like used oil I save for a visit to the tip. I have a "tip pending" area round the side of the house where its well out of the way.
Metal stuff gets saved up and I wait for the scrap man, not seen him for a bit though.
I think it's some version of ANPR at my local HWRC - you have to register your registration number with the local council (South Gloucestershire) and the reg comes up when you drive through the entry. It's a bit haphazard though, sometimes it flashes up that I'm not registered when I am and have to rely on knowing the blokes that work there for them to allow me to tip.
Not sure if it's still the case but tipping your waste at a neighbouring council HWRC site used to be a big no-no. I live in a village where it's sometimes easier to tip at a BANES site than the South Glos one yet I was turned away once from there. It should be that you can tip locally if it's easier to do so.
Not sure if it's still the case but tipping your waste at a neighbouring council HWRC site used to be a big no-no. I live in a village where it's sometimes easier to tip at a BANES site than the South Glos one yet I was turned away once from there. It should be that you can tip locally if it's easier to do so.
HarryW said:
I’m in Hampshire too and saw this. I don’t have an issue per se, I must only use the top half a dozen times a year at best. What I did find strange though was it doesn’t apply to the tip at Paulsgrove, which for those not local is a large council estate area north of Portsmouth. I can presume that was done in fear of the amount of man and a van clearance ‘businesses’ from there reverting to fly tipping if they were forced to pay for their activities.
Lol the council want non hants residents to be able to access Paulsgrove! 
Fast Bug said:
A while back I tried to get rid of some tiles when we did our bathroom, the tio refused to take them. They told me I had to bag them up, take them to another tip 20 miles away and pay £5 a bag. They went in my household bin split over 2 bin days in the end. They really don't help themselves do they?
I did similar with the outgoing appliances from a kitchen refurb we had done.Hampshire (who else?) wanted £5 per item to receive them so over the next few weeks and with the help of my angle grinder a built-in oven and hob were reduced to A4-sized bits and lobbed in our normal wheelie bin.
The other annoying issue with Hampshire recycling sites is the bloody queues. Regularly 45mins+ just to get in the gate.
Oh and the ongoing struggle to explain to them that a Land Rover Defender isn’t automatically a “commercial vehicle and therefore has to pay commercial rates”
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 29th December 14:40
Our local recycling depot is very good, staffed my amiable and helpful workers. We do have to pay a few quid for bags of rubble, tiles etc., but cost is invariably rounded off on the low side. Always kept clean and open long hours seven days a week, in sharp contrast to next nearest one which is just over the Border in Scotland and rarely functions at anywhere near full capacity, where people have been told by staff to 'take it home and put it in the bin' or 'take it to England'. The added bonus of using English facilities for them is that they can dump their stuff and then stock up on our cheaper booze before going home. All in all, all in favour of identification scheme.
Similar story up here in Leicestershire. There’s no registration process yet, unless you have a van or a trailer. I had to register for my small erde trailer.
The way they’ve cut the budget is a rotational two day closing around all the sites except the main one in leicester and to charge for ‘bagged hardcore/ rubble’
When it came into force I took the remains of our removed bathroom up there. Tub copped into 4 and the suite/ tiles in builders buckets.
They took a look and decided i had 9 bags worth (£3 a bag) as the sink, toilet, cistern and pedestal were all ‘1 bag’ I didn’t have means of payment with me so I had to come all the way back.
Mightily pissed off with all the faff I smashed it all up into builders bags instead and got it into 3 very full bags, back into the trailer and went and paid the £9.
As many others have said, no wonder the countryside is littered with dumped rubbish.
The way they’ve cut the budget is a rotational two day closing around all the sites except the main one in leicester and to charge for ‘bagged hardcore/ rubble’
When it came into force I took the remains of our removed bathroom up there. Tub copped into 4 and the suite/ tiles in builders buckets.
They took a look and decided i had 9 bags worth (£3 a bag) as the sink, toilet, cistern and pedestal were all ‘1 bag’ I didn’t have means of payment with me so I had to come all the way back.
Mightily pissed off with all the faff I smashed it all up into builders bags instead and got it into 3 very full bags, back into the trailer and went and paid the £9.
As many others have said, no wonder the countryside is littered with dumped rubbish.
I’m amused at posters labouring with the misunderstanding that their “Community Recycling Centre” is a council service.
It’s far more effective for councils NOT to take your rubbish, or to charge you for taking it. That they can justify this under their eco/green/environmental agenda is just perfect as such policies hard to challenge or even criticise.
Meanwhile, hedges, lay-bys and field/gate entrances full of filthy rubbish are becoming more and more common in my area.
It’s a perfect storm of good intentions, perverse incentives, central targets and the loss of understanding of the role of local councils.
As such it will - I’m afraid - be savagely persistent.
It’s far more effective for councils NOT to take your rubbish, or to charge you for taking it. That they can justify this under their eco/green/environmental agenda is just perfect as such policies hard to challenge or even criticise.
Meanwhile, hedges, lay-bys and field/gate entrances full of filthy rubbish are becoming more and more common in my area.
It’s a perfect storm of good intentions, perverse incentives, central targets and the loss of understanding of the role of local councils.
As such it will - I’m afraid - be savagely persistent.
Crossflow Kid said:
I did similar with the outgoing appliances from a kitchen refurb we had done.
Hampshire (who else?) wanted £5 per item to receive them so over the next few weeks and with the help of my angle grinder a built-in oven and hob were reduced to A4-sized bits and lobbed in our normal wheelie bin.
The other annoying issue with Hampshire recycling sites is the bloody queues. Regularly 45mins+ just to get in the gate.
Oh and the ongoing struggle to explain to them that a Land Rover Defender isn’t automatically a “commercial vehicle and therefore has to pay commercial rates”
I've had to get permits to take stuff to the tip in my soft top 90 Hampshire (who else?) wanted £5 per item to receive them so over the next few weeks and with the help of my angle grinder a built-in oven and hob were reduced to A4-sized bits and lobbed in our normal wheelie bin.
The other annoying issue with Hampshire recycling sites is the bloody queues. Regularly 45mins+ just to get in the gate.
Oh and the ongoing struggle to explain to them that a Land Rover Defender isn’t automatically a “commercial vehicle and therefore has to pay commercial rates”
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 29th December 14:40
No identity nonsense at our local centre and they take many of the items others don't:
https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/environment/rubbish-...
https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/environment/rubbish-...
Ours seems to depend on who is working on what day. Overall they are pretty good but occasionally you see them getting in a tizz and sticking to the rules.
Turn up with too much stuff and they let you dump what they want, then next day you can take the rest why??
Council see this as a simple cash issue. the less we dump for free the better for them with the contract they have with SITA. Now if people fly tip, so long as it is not on council owned land, it is the landowners responsibility to pay for the clear up.
It will only be if the council starts spending more on clearing fly tipped goods will they change the policy. We already have to pay £36 per year for a green bin, or we can queue up to tip it so long as it fits in a certain size vehicle.
It is madness but the councillors nod things through as they see a cost saving
Turn up with too much stuff and they let you dump what they want, then next day you can take the rest why??
Council see this as a simple cash issue. the less we dump for free the better for them with the contract they have with SITA. Now if people fly tip, so long as it is not on council owned land, it is the landowners responsibility to pay for the clear up.
It will only be if the council starts spending more on clearing fly tipped goods will they change the policy. We already have to pay £36 per year for a green bin, or we can queue up to tip it so long as it fits in a certain size vehicle.
It is madness but the councillors nod things through as they see a cost saving
Council are trying to bring in charging here. Richmond, Surrey. They launched it on December 1st but pulled it at the last minute because of the uproar. It was something like £42 per tonne for building waste and limited to 6 rubble sacks per month. At the moment it's still free for residents while they review the charges but charges are coming. So. Next time I have dirt to dispose of some of it'll go in the bin collection and the rest will find it's way to the recycling infrastructure via a somewhat more torturous route. As said, total lack if ability to see the bigger picture.
2gins said:
Council are trying to bring in charging here. Richmond, Surrey. They launched it on December 1st but pulled it at the last minute because of the uproar. It was something like £42 per tonne for building waste and limited to 6 rubble sacks per month. At the moment it's still free for residents while they review the charges but charges are coming. So. Next time I have dirt to dispose of some of it'll go in the bin collection and the rest will find it's way to the recycling infrastructure via a somewhat more torturous route. As said, total lack if ability to see the bigger picture.
You vote for Lib Dems that's what you get!Our local recycling centre in Northampton seems great. Never had any issue and the guys there are really helpful and will often offer to assist in emptying a car if they think it might required, sometimes they'll ask if they can take an item to go to other causes or if it has another use. Furniture, cycles, small electrical items etc.
They have dedicated areas for everything I could want to dispose of. Garden waste, timber, carpet, textiles, cardboard, oil, oil filters etc. I recently took down a load of tile offcuts and removed ones and was pointed to the "hardcore" skip.
I used to live in plymouth and the local recycling centre there asked to see proof of address. Photo driving license was all that was required and again, had no qualms there either.
They have dedicated areas for everything I could want to dispose of. Garden waste, timber, carpet, textiles, cardboard, oil, oil filters etc. I recently took down a load of tile offcuts and removed ones and was pointed to the "hardcore" skip.
I used to live in plymouth and the local recycling centre there asked to see proof of address. Photo driving license was all that was required and again, had no qualms there either.
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