Getting rid of rubbish....

[sythai]

Just want to see what you chaps do.

This is just for domestic jobs...

What do you do with your rubbish if you can't leave for the customer to dispose of?

Down here you cant just go up the dump in your sign written van. So what I've been having to do for the last few years is go up every couple of weeks in my car, bit of pain.

But now all change, in Devon they've just brought in that anything you take up the dump unless it is household rubbish or garden waste then it is chargeable !! fekkers !! £7/bag of plasterboard, £2/bag rubble etc the list goes on.

Was thinking of putting something in my T & C's to cover me for this, any thoughts please ?

At the moment usually ending up with a wheelie bin full of rubbish each week.


Sy

 

[Deleted member 9648]

You do need a waste licence from the EA to carry even tiny amounts of waste on a van.....and the bin gestapo are checking and fining those without one in our area.

 

[malcolmsanford]

If I were doing a large rewire I used the tonne hippobags they were about 40 pound to take away, then you got your deposit back. Advantages to them were no skip permit and no overnight matress drops that skips seem to attrach.

If it were smaller jobs that produced more rubble to get rid of, than the convential under the floor method, then I would bag it up, load a small trailer I had and down the dump in the car. It cost me a couple of bottles of scotch at Christmas for the lads to "turn a blind eye", but with council tax frozen this year, the councils will be trying anything to get money

 

[Scottley]

The EA would like everyone to have a waste license, obvioulsy because they charge for them. As mentioned it can be a single bag that enough to get you a fine if pulled in. Most builders vans have enough rubbish on the dash to be within that category!

I use a local guy who has a waste license and comes and collects the rubbish from the property (bathrooms and kitchens mainly)

My local tip wont allow vans in either and they can only be taken in by appointment, even a hire van has to go through the same procedure. Even with the car they are watching like hawks as they are on a bonus scheme to keep the overall amount of waste down. I saw only guy in his car with 2 fence panels and a bucket of rubble. they would only let him dump one panel and the bricks, they actually made him take the other panel home again.

 

[DurhamSparky]

im saying nothing about where my rubbish goes!!! dont want people to find out!

 

[Mr Mike]

My NAPIT field officier told me not to carry waste, unless I buy a licence.
He suggested I include "client to dispose of materials" on my quotation.

 

[gaz101]

hi i am in devon also i have a 1100L wheley bin bude skip hire charge
£13,50 +vat to empty it cheaper than the derv to drive to the
dump

 

[Adam W]

When did it become so difficult to dispose of waste responsibly?
Sorry to get all nostalgic but I remember when I was a kid rubbish used to go in the bin. Once a week the bin man would walk up the drive, pick up the bin and any full binbags next to it, chuck all the rubbish in the bin lorry and put the empty bin back with a couple of empty black bags tucked in the top.

Nowadays you have to separate the recyclables and put them all in a separate bin, not so full the lid won't go down and not so heavy you can't move the bin with 2 fingers, everything has to go in the right bin or they won't take it, you have to shred or censor any correspondance not to stop identity theft but because the council send busybodies around to rummage through your waste so they can send you a fine.
You get a £75 fine if you drop a smoke end in the gutter and probably a fine if you put them in the bin and set the bin on fire, you can't take too much down the tip in one go, you can't even take a van into the tip, it seems they're actually trying to encourage 'more inventive' methods of waste disposal.

 

[Adam W]

... And then they get emptied on alternate weeks so you have to remember which week is the recyclables and which week is the non recyclables, wheel the right bin out to the kerb otherwise they won't take it or will stick a sticker on it giving you a telling-off (and still not take it), then wheel your bin back to your property within 12 hours otherwise you get a fine for obstructing a public thoroughfare.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

At my local tip, it is Weds and Sat only for vans. effing ----ers our council, take what you want in the car when you want to.

Typical council, run by w*****s.

Cheers..........Howard

 

[telectrix]

can't knock my local tip. got most of the furniture from there

 

[SirKit Breaker]

... And then they get emptied on alternate weeks so you have to remember which week is the recyclables and which week is the non recyclables, wheel the right bin out to the kerb otherwise they won't take it or will stick a sticker on it giving you a telling-off (and still not take it), then wheel your bin back to your property within 12 hours otherwise you get a fine for obstructing a public thoroughfare.

As I siad on the post below this,

Typical council run by w******.

Cheers........Howard

 

[Geordie Spark]

When did it become so difficult to dispose of waste responsibly?
Sorry to get all nostalgic but I remember when I was a kid rubbish used to go in the bin. Once a week the bin man would walk up the drive, pick up the bin and any full binbags next to it, chuck all the rubbish in the bin lorry and put the empty bin back with a couple of empty black bags tucked in the top.

Nowadays you have to separate the recyclables and put them all in a separate bin, not so full the lid won't go down and not so heavy you can't move the bin with 2 fingers, everything has to go in the right bin or they won't take it, you have to shred or censor any correspondance not to stop identity theft but because the council send busybodies around to rummage through your waste so they can send you a fine.
You get a £75 fine if you drop a smoke end in the gutter and probably a fine if you put them in the bin and set the bin on fire, you can't take too much down the tip in one go, you can't even take a van into the tip, it seems they're actually trying to encourage 'more inventive' methods of waste disposal.

That's exactly why I dump it in the Civic Centre car park !!!

 

[Spoon]

You do realise that the council will have their elite squat looking at this site and will come crashing in through your windows to arrest you... Any for the females here, they will not look like James Bond but have faces similar to a bull dog licking p*ss of a nettle. You have been warned...

 

[ian.settle1]

half a mile from me is a row of shops, all with their big commercial waste bins out the back. 11.00pm, after the offy closes . boom. boom.

Think he's talking about his waste not your empty bottles and cans