What people throw out amazes me

Makes me realise how lucky we are here. Our local centres, across the county, have separate sections for card, paper, metal, green waste, clothes, shoes, oil, fluorescent tubes, general rubbish, rubble, soil, etc etc. The only restriction appears to be on asbestos where you can only dump about three roofing sheets per year, subject to a free permit and correct wrapping.

And no: I do not work for the tips..............

James.

Edited By James Alford on 24/12/2017 09:22:41

Colin H. you cant be far from me. I have just paid my £36 to Lichfield council for the brown bin.

I tend to get stuff from skips rather than the municipal tip. Best finds so far: 1800 x 900 x 6 steel plate, now my main bench top, 1200 x 900 x 10 6082-T6 plate. Shortly to be soft vice jaws and anything else needing ali plate.

Pallets are so useful, firewood and shop benches have been my main use for them, however I made a 250 kg swl A frame crane at one point from a number of 8ft pallets, and proof loaded it with my 650 kg 2CV. Used that, and a beefed up pallet based garden table to get my shaper out of the van. Then used a pallet based trolley with 4 skip rescued castors to move it about. Not sure I've bought more than 3m of timber in the last 13 years despite doing a good 50% of my work in timber. All pallets or trees people don't want.

Yep,it is truly amazing what people throw away.

Regards

Richard.

You're lucky, in West Norfolk my brown bin charge increases to £49 in the New Year. To be fair I don't mind paying the charge as otherwise it would be a 12 mile round trip and the last thing I want to be doing nowadays is lugging heavy bags of garden waste in and out of the car. Also means more time in the workshop .

Phil

We get one brown bin free and my wife paid a one-off fee for a second, but now they have banned kitchen waste from it. Just over the border from Lichfield Council.

Regularly take 5-6 one ton dumpy bags full of grass cuttings and leaves etc from my garden in the summer (1.5 Acres)......free - cos they recycle it and sell it as compost

or i could have a small green waste bin £30 per annum would need about 20 of them emptied onece a fortnight (stink to high heaven as it decomposes and attracts Fly's.

Two broken roof slates £7.50 - took them home and put them in the general waste....free

local paper "it costs £3000 to clean up each fly tip"

local recycling center now open 10am - 4pm 6 days not Wednesday, small single axle trailers ok, larger twin axle only at restricted times, larger private vans need permits yet see loads of small sign written trade vans in there without

complicated or what !!.

Surely it would be cheaper and easier to open the tip longer hours and allow anyone in up to 3.5 ton's

and they wonder why fly tipping has gone through the roof around here.........

Edited By Antony Powell on 24/12/2017 12:32:01

Mr A. Powell,

jobsworth, morons in suits at the top.......those in charge live in Never Never land.......be different if u could get em out of the office and make em clean up the mess, things would soon change.......

rant over.....all the best for the festivities......clogs