20k to catch recycling "thieves" over 47p worth of sCRAP! ..aww man

[Baz]

Isn't there a system in some areas of America where on a certain day people put 'scrap' at the roadside for people to pickup if interested. Wouldn't work here as the pikeys would just go along grabbing it to sell as scrap.

[desperate]

Are you all talking trade or domestic here? Smoky regularly goes to our local tip through the weighbridge, and I have never been queried about whats on board, except for assy, tyres, fridges, and electricals, which I can dump for a surcharge. Mind you it's over a hundred quid a tonne now.

I sort of can understand them being a bit squeaky about domestic refuse tipping, before they clamped down here it was obvious that lots of builders were claiming to be "just having a clearout at home"..........oh yeah?

They did let people salvage stuff until about 10 years ago, but I think H&S put an end to that

Desperate

[wyleu]

so give it to the council who will sell it to a company who will stick it in a container which will be sailed to India to be dumped on a tip to be scavenged...

Not quite how it should be...

[Justme]

the council who will sell it to a company

Are councils actually selling it or being charged to take it away?

[dimengineer]

You can always try Freecycle/freegle. It works pretty well for moving stuff on. 

Tim

[Outtasight]

Out the back of the electrical engineering dept of my uni, they had a "magic skip".  It was there for years and the department was always clearing out computers (VAX mainframes and 8" floppy drives) and lab junk.  AFAIK they never once had to call the truck back to take the skip away to be emptied...

My neighbour was doing up his house and building an extension.  He had a skip and I had about half of the contents (with permission)

My present mountain bike was fly tipped outside my garage a couple of years ago.  Just needed a new tube on one wheel (50p from a car boot).

In the summer I never have to buy wood for making things.  There's a car boot where a chippy often visits and sells all his off-cuts and random bits of un-used wood for pennies.  You never know when half a fence post will come in handy...

[Fintray]

M'mm skips  Think I'll get a sticker for the rear window of my car "Caution I slow down for skips!"

[Aussie]

Hi all am in Tasmania Australia.

My town had an ecosalv recycling centre . Ran using subsidised workers.. battlers.

A real community meet point for recyclers and re users.

Council stopped their tip scrounging contract. For "health and safety" reasons .

Built a 3 million dollar "clean dump" / all concrete/ with fancy conveyer loader.

2 years later. Contract now owned by big worldwide company. Conveyer a dud.

After enquries.. 90% of rubbish is  being dumped in old original landfill tip.
All the old reusable stuff now squashed or shredded.

Cost to ratepayers... mega

[guydewdney]

My dad got a persian rug (worth thousands) and a pair of solid silver taps out of skips.........