Wrong sort of rubbish

My local tip seems to take most things. If there isn't a dedicated skip it goes in general landfill rubbish. Possibly what you need to do is to turn up with your un-approved rubbish in a rubbish or recycled compost sack and just say that it's general rubbish.

Where I live where one of the tips/recycling centre is on the border with a neighbouring council area the same system operates. The tips also have a number plate recognition system. The councils waste contractor also has a large item pick-up from the kerb side, for a fee - £10.60 for the first item and £7.10 for subsequent bulk items. This is often cheaper than what some of the big box retailers charge for disposing of your old item when delivering the new item.

Things like washing machines or fridges/freezers left on the edge of your property tend to just disappear within a day :)

Up here, you have to book an appointment online.

A mate of mine took some logs and was prevented from putting them in the WOOD skip. "That's for wardrobes and stuff like that".

We have to book online, and have a number plate check. The rules changed somewhat at the beginning of last year concerning "chargeable waste", and got rather complicated:

same here

Not really as abut every 4th or 5th skip around the compound is for 'residual waste'

Where friends live they had the booking system for a few months but it was withdrawn after a LOT of local protest.

My local tips have CCTV cameras and you can view on-line the queues to enter the tips. The tip I use on an occasional basis has space for around 15 cars.

Small trailers are allowed but in general no vans. Commercial type vehicles can use the site for four hours on a designated day but the driver must complete a Household Waste Declaration form which details personal name/address/telephone, vehicle identity (registration, details and any sign written information), type of waste etc. The form details the penalty for dumping commercial waste at the tip (up to £50,000 fine and/or up to 5 years in prison). Possibly why automatic number plate recognition has been installed - to check more than the occasional use of the tip.

Ive generally found - though I haven't been for a couple of yeras - a bin that is basically 'anything else' and goes into landfill

Move to Birmingham

With the bin strike since December, the agency crews give not a s*it what you put in your one bin.

Since a household of two produces quite little waste, they've taken all my grass cuttings too.

In message <CInuQ.744$_D snipped-for-privacy@fx15.ams, Sam Plusnet snipped-for-privacy@home.com writes

For me a successful trip to the "Recycling Centre" is to come back with more than I brought, -The permission is in the name ;-)

My local one is fussy about wood - chipboard isn't classed as wood. I got a telling off for that one,

Brian

That's a terribly high price to pay...

Well I have been discretely chucking the odd bottle in the landfill bin Glass makes excellent land fill. Chucking it in the sea is even better as it turns to nice coloured pebbles and then to sand over time. The you can grab it with excavators and sell it as ballast...

We have two skips for stuff that doesn't fit elsewhere, and staff who advise on which to use for whatever I have. The things they won't accept are gypsum, plasterboard and asbestos,

I think its common, and my experience is not the norm

Mine sometimes ask for that. I pointed to my residents parking pass and he seemed happy.

Dave

Our district council charge £38 for the first 3 items and an extra £31 per 'hazardous' item. Means getting rid of a fridge or a TV costs £69. Meanwhile it's free if you take them to the tip (operated by the county council, different lot guv).

People across the road have been trying that for weeks. No takers.

Theo

In article <CInuQ.744$_D snipped-for-privacy@fx15.ams, Sam Plusnet snipped-for-privacy@home.com scribeth thus

We've got an excellent one round our way at Triplow Cambs, thats around a mile west from the runway at Duxford airfield. Very helpful staff and the great distraction is the odd Spitfire or Hurri or yank warbird overhead!

Cant fault it at all!...

Washing machines, yes, fridge/freezers no - I think due to gas recovery issues.

Dave

Do you really think that the people you collect scrap metal, either legally or illegally, from the roadside care too much about gas recovery?

We had that during & for some time after covid, but they finally decided it was more trouble (to them) than it was worth.>

"If it's not covered in melamine - we don't want it."

The staff are not recruited for their cognative powers.>

Do they have a section for "Garden Waste"?

We've never put out any 'garden waste'. We either compost it - or put it through the shredder & then compost it.

West Sussex have had the booking system for ages and it works ok. You can even book by phoning them but they always remind you that it can be done online (hint hint).

We can take asbestos stuff to Burgess Hill only, and it must be double wrapped in 1000 gauge plastic with no holes.

I think they don't like collecting fridges because they're mainly bacofoil exterior, plastic interior, filled with foam. the compressor and radiators aren't enough for the hassle?

Is GRP/fibre-glass also a problem? Going by GRP baths seem to be a common constitunt of fly-tipping. We are trying to establish why fibre-glass is turning up in "biosolids" processed sewage fertiliser for farmers. Suggestion is the dust from vacuum filters in car or boat repair cutting/grinding operations must be deemed hazerdous waste, so expensive to properly dispose of , so simply flushed down toilets instead