My local 'tip' in Harrow, NW London has an active policy of disallowing people to remove stuff from the dump that other people discard.
A friend's recycle centre in Southend has folks working there that will put aside useful items and part with them for a little money. Got a good video recorder on a 'visit' there a year ago.
Any 'good' facilities been visited anywhere else?
The reason why council refuse/recycling depots won't let you take the unwanted stuff is because the likes of electrical items could be faulty,leading to electrical shock or fire outbreak in the home and result in council being sued on these grounds.
You should move to *Japan* they turf their videos,TV's,CD Recorders out after 2 years,working or not.
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Halesfield in Telford can be friendly, but don't try it at Granville, Telford 'cos they're complete bastards.
Then a disclaimer should be in operation...
That would mean rewriting the council waste disposal management handbook. ;-)
According to BIL, he's seen stuff being crushed that would make you cry ie power tools,petrol generator,mowers ect. He can't even aquire the stuff himself as it means theft of council property and immediate dismissal.
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Sadly, disclaimers aren't worth the paper they're written on. You can't sign away your rights. No, really.
At ours it depends whish staff are on duty at the time :-(
Mary
How do the likes of the Freecycle groups manage then? And before you'd have a chance of suing surely you'd have to prove where you got the goods from?
Also the reason sale rooms now automatically cut plug leads off.
I can still remember a few months back when a victim on, (Flogit, I think), found the saleroom had cut the lead off their 50's bit of electrics, and the lead had been a feature of selling the thing.
The one I use you aren't supposed to take stuff, makes me cry to see the stuff there some days.
I did take a pc once as the guys were hiding in the hut from the rain. Nothing wrong with it at all, still had the users data/files on it... :-~ some people...
Stupidest thing I saw was an old sander I took with some other stuff, guy cut the cable off and threw it in the "metal" skip and walked off with the cable? Surely the copper on the motor weighed more than what he'd get from stripping the power cord?
Mark S.
Thats easy,freecycle is not a council based group nor is it a charity based one.
It wouldn't happen because the council would and will not let you have the gear full stop. :-)
Yes.
You buy stuff from a charity shop which is a different ball game. Free goods are a different matter.
Apparently some do.
Why stupid? The stuff in the metal skip is taken and broken down into small pieces and then put through a metal separator. You end up with separate piles of different metals and the rest of the rubbish. The power cord probably went in a different bin as its more difficult to separate later.
Charity shops won't sell electrical goods now without them being PATed first. (Some of them are even insisting the PATing is carried out by a qualified person!)
Owain
Best not tell everyone about them then or they'll all want something.
It seems good skips are like truffles.
I have often retrieved excessively large teddy bears from the communal wheeliebins (I suspect one of the residents gets given them as employee of the month type awards) and given them to grateful charity shops.
Had my eye on a telly in the wheeliebin at the weekend but it rained before I could get to it. Some things I'd risk a bit of dampness with, but not tellies.
Owain
The only electrical items you will aquire from a charity shop is one that are new and still boxed. charity shops will not accept or sell secondhand electrical goods.
Name some?
The StyleAcre charity in Wallingford. - They trained up their own PAT tester, incidently giving employment to someone with long term disabilities, and so can test the items that they receive.
Andy
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Telly'd be OK if you left it to dry for a week or so.
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