I didn’t realise you had to pay for this. Everywhere I’ve ever lived, I’ve done it for free. And there is still fly tipping in those areas. I cannot see how this will combat fly tipping at all. If anything, surely it will simply reduce the local council budgets for those who charge.
So much good stuff gets dumped instead of being passed on and reused. Nobody is going to pay the exorbitant fees councils try to charge for second hand items they salvaged from the bins. But someone absolutely will make use of that damaged but still usable item for free. Unfortunately letting the plebs have it for free doesn’t make shareholders any money. It’s more profitable to crush the items into dust in order to extract minuscule amounts of metals, and force the consumer to pay for a new item instead of reusing an old one.
Years and years ago councils used to place skips in the local area once a year so everyone could have their bulk rubbish picked up for free. Those without cars simply waited for the skip instead of resorting to fly-tipping it on the street. And half the stuff got pulled out of the skips and salvaged by recyclers, metal collectors, etc.
Where I lived the cost of this was quite substantial, about £25 for a pickup if they did handle it. The problem was there were a lot of things they didn’t handle at all, like electricals. They wouldn’t allow anyone to walk into the local collection point and the closest electricals bin was outside a Supermarket about 2 miles away. I ended up collecting no end of dead little electricals that were freely picked up and dealt with after I moved house and that included things like light switches. It differs so much from council to council, some of them are just dreadful and others will happily collect even minor chemical waste from your home while others have no provision for that at all.
This would be brilliant. Right now whenever I do work on our house I end up parcelling up the waste and spreading the trips to the tip over several weeks as anything after the first bag for hardcore/tiles/plasterboard etc. they charge £5 per “bag”. Whatever unit that is.
Would save everyone the fuel and hassle if it could just be done in one.
My local council doesn’t charge for this, but they have severe restrictions and limitations. Anything more substantial than a minor wall repair will result in fees being paid or them not taking the waste at all.
Definitely helps explain the incredible amount of fly tipping…
What annoys me more than this though is that the tip here is STILL using Covid social distancing measures. It makes no sense! The entire place is outdoors and the rest of the world has moved on! Half the number of vehicles are allowed in a day than there used to be and you need a booking….. So half the borough just dumps their waste in random lay-bys instead. Its stupid.
It’s utterly fucking ludicrous that there isn’t a national standard/process for refuse and recycling.
I find it ironic that the council put the fucking asbestos in our house but I’m charged by them to get rid of the fucking stuff.
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I didn’t realise you had to pay for this. Everywhere I’ve ever lived, I’ve done it for free. And there is still fly tipping in those areas. I cannot see how this will combat fly tipping at all. If anything, surely it will simply reduce the local council budgets for those who charge.
So much good stuff gets dumped instead of being passed on and reused. Nobody is going to pay the exorbitant fees councils try to charge for second hand items they salvaged from the bins. But someone absolutely will make use of that damaged but still usable item for free. Unfortunately letting the plebs have it for free doesn’t make shareholders any money. It’s more profitable to crush the items into dust in order to extract minuscule amounts of metals, and force the consumer to pay for a new item instead of reusing an old one.
Years and years ago councils used to place skips in the local area once a year so everyone could have their bulk rubbish picked up for free. Those without cars simply waited for the skip instead of resorting to fly-tipping it on the street. And half the stuff got pulled out of the skips and salvaged by recyclers, metal collectors, etc.
Where I lived the cost of this was quite substantial, about £25 for a pickup if they did handle it. The problem was there were a lot of things they didn’t handle at all, like electricals. They wouldn’t allow anyone to walk into the local collection point and the closest electricals bin was outside a Supermarket about 2 miles away. I ended up collecting no end of dead little electricals that were freely picked up and dealt with after I moved house and that included things like light switches. It differs so much from council to council, some of them are just dreadful and others will happily collect even minor chemical waste from your home while others have no provision for that at all.
This would be brilliant. Right now whenever I do work on our house I end up parcelling up the waste and spreading the trips to the tip over several weeks as anything after the first bag for hardcore/tiles/plasterboard etc. they charge £5 per “bag”. Whatever unit that is.
Would save everyone the fuel and hassle if it could just be done in one.
My local council doesn’t charge for this, but they have severe restrictions and limitations. Anything more substantial than a minor wall repair will result in fees being paid or them not taking the waste at all.
Definitely helps explain the incredible amount of fly tipping…
What annoys me more than this though is that the tip here is STILL using Covid social distancing measures. It makes no sense! The entire place is outdoors and the rest of the world has moved on! Half the number of vehicles are allowed in a day than there used to be and you need a booking….. So half the borough just dumps their waste in random lay-bys instead. Its stupid.
It’s utterly fucking ludicrous that there isn’t a national standard/process for refuse and recycling.
I find it ironic that the council put the fucking asbestos in our house but I’m charged by them to get rid of the fucking stuff.