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CompoSimmonite
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Government has ordered councils to stop charging people for dumping DIY waste. Hopefully that will include tyres as previously you could dispose of 4 a year FOC.
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According to our recycling centre car and motorcycle scrap is not household rubbish but automotive waste and is chargeable.
When I replaced the seat on my wife's scooter and took the old one to the tip he wanted to charge me £4 "Coz it's automotive".
When I said that it was funny how they would accept car batteries free of charge he just went bright red and just kept repeating that it was £4 to dump the seat, I took it home and put in the wheelie bin!
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That will be how it works now though - no charge, but only allowed to take 1/2 a bin liner to them every 6 years.
The tips are not run with any intelligence. I went there with the trailer once, on the way to the scrap yard. I was dropping off proper rubbish at the tip (ie stuff that would cost the council money to dispose of).
Jobsworth came out, and saw the metal - told me it was commercial waste. I told him i was on the way to the scrap yard to SELL it.
...he repeated that i couldnt dump it there, and stood and watched over me whilst i unloaded all the worthless waste - the stuff he didnt think was commercial.
I never understand why they wont take hardcore / concrete. Surely that has a commercial value if you have enough of it coming through?
The tips are not run with any intelligence. I went there with the trailer once, on the way to the scrap yard. I was dropping off proper rubbish at the tip (ie stuff that would cost the council money to dispose of).
Jobsworth came out, and saw the metal - told me it was commercial waste. I told him i was on the way to the scrap yard to SELL it.
...he repeated that i couldnt dump it there, and stood and watched over me whilst i unloaded all the worthless waste - the stuff he didnt think was commercial.
I never understand why they wont take hardcore / concrete. Surely that has a commercial value if you have enough of it coming through?
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Waste motor oil too. But that's saleable also.
Good job they take WMO too, else it would just end up in the drains.
In fact, thinking about it, im surprised that they take waste motor oil..... : /
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This may be a good place to ask -
What's the easiest way to get tyres off alloy rims at home, without damaging the rim?
(i dont care about the tyre, if that makes any difference)
Ive watched youtube vids with steels, but the techniques look as if they would trash alloys?
What's the easiest way to get tyres off alloy rims at home, without damaging the rim?
(i dont care about the tyre, if that makes any difference)
Ive watched youtube vids with steels, but the techniques look as if they would trash alloys?
Seadog
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My place does. It also takes topsoil and plasterboard, although in different bins
The myriad different ways that recycling is handled shows just what a mess the system is. It seems to be down to whoever has the contract as to what they'll take. A neighbouring borough has a much better approach. They'll take plastic, so have separate bins for hard and soft plastic and ceramics, so you can chuck your old bathroom suite in too.; but only if you're the householder of course.
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Yep you would have to watch where you TREAD
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should have told him allowed as it's from a disability scooter
so he has to take it makes them squirm
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Hi, I've always changed my own tyres at home and it's as simple as it looks, I admit practice does make it look easy. Alloy's are more resilient than you think, If you think it's going to do damage then check that everything is right especially that the bead is down in the well. I do it with a couple of 18" bars on the floor and no use of a hammer.
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Same here ... and it's getting worse.
Unrelated (they say) the good news is the tip is recycling a higher percentage than ever, and it's profitable.
I moved house about 2 years ago and checked the rules at the local tip.
They had just started to charge for builders rubble, all other stuff was free.
I fitted a new bathroom suite last year and took the old one to the tip - charging for rubble was so profitable they had started to charge for bathroom suites & plasterboard just after I asked.
I ended up taking most of it down to Wales as I was doing some demolition work down there - madness that their "recycling" policy results in domestic waste being driven 200 miles to go in a skip.
The tip also have a policy of closing the compound for 20 minutes when they are taking full skips away and setting up empty ones. Very annoying to be parked outside the locked gates during the day - reading a sign saying "fly-tipping is illegal". I wonder where the folk go who decide not to wait
Maybe time for them to try new policy - like let folk dispose of domestic waste for free
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Std practice to close when moving skips out now. Understandable because it comes under the legal requirement to exclude the site from people not involved in the operationSame here ... and it's getting worse.
Unrelated (they say) the good news is the tip is recycling a higher percentage than ever, and it's profitable.
I moved house about 2 years ago and checked the rules at the local tip.
They had just started to charge for builders rubble, all other stuff was free.
I fitted a new bathroom suite last year and took the old one to the tip - charging for rubble was so profitable they had started to charge for bathroom suites & plasterboard just after I asked.
I ended up taking most of it down to Wales as I was doing some demolition work down there - madness that their "recycling" policy results in domestic waste being driven 200 miles to go in a skip.
The tip also have a policy of closing the compound for 20 minutes when they are taking full skips away and setting up empty ones. Very annoying to be parked outside the locked gates during the day - reading a sign saying "fly-tipping is illegal". I wonder where the folk go who decide not to wait
Maybe time for them to try new policy - like let folk dispose of domestic waste for free
I was in London visiting my Aunty and because I drove a pickup she asked me to take her old washing machine to the local tip, suffice to say they refused to let me because I was "commercial" to I dropped it off 240miles away at my local tip in Preston.
The other time the tip really annoyed me was when I was getting rid of an old asbestos sectional garage, they would only give me a couple of bags at a time to I had to drive to the tip about 30 times rather than take it all in a couple of trips, and then they wonder why we have air pollution problems !!!
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Yet any scrap yard would have had it
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our local council has changed its rules too, tightening up on the whole process. Apparently they "consulted with experts" who used their "expertise" to predict there would be no extra fly tipping as a result. Obviously I don't want any more fly tipping but part of me thinks if there was it may teach them an expensive lesson in using common sense!
actually what am I saying? This is the council we're talking about, they'll NEVER use common sense!
actually what am I saying? This is the council we're talking about, they'll NEVER use common sense!
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Ours give you a sticker to go in the windscreen once you provide ID like the road tax (you pay for) to drive through Switzerland. I think our sticker is older than the car, we like recycling.
