Tip experience

[henry1]

Went to the tip the other day by car and was told I have too much rubbish - 5 bags allowed per trip!
Someone told me they used to have to pay to dispose of rubbish in their tip; fortunately that was never the case in my local tip.

Can anyone explain the logic of limiting the amount of rubbish disposed? Surely, we're doing the council's job and they should be doing everything they can do encourage us! By making it difficult to dispose of rubbish, flytipping is being encouraged.

With my local tip limiting to 5 bags, I would then be making multiple trips, contributing to more traffic and air pollution when 1 car trip would have sufficed.

 

[RandomGrinch]

5 bags allowed per trip!

Were these domestic waste bags for landfill?
Our tips don't have a limit for cars, but we can't use bin bags - everything that goes into the general waste skip has to be unbagged and seen to be non-recyclable.

 

[henry1]

No, just the equivalent of 5 bags.
Domestic waste, no trade waste allowed.

 

[Odds]

Some Councils charge for waste disposal at a tip - maybe yours limits a trip to five bags for free then charges for more?

 

[RandomGrinch]

No, just the equivalent of 5 bags.
Domestic waste, no trade waste allowed.

That's what I meant.
Around our way, they are trying to eliminate domestic waste in bin bags, by as much as possible.
We have a 3 bag limit, to be collected every 3 weeks. This may be reducing to 2 bags shortly. One local council is collecting every 4 weeks.
Hence why our tips don't accept black bags - otherwise, it would be a shortcut to avoid the necessary recycling.

 

[johnny2007]

They're squeezing us like lemons in every way possible.

 

[Odds]

When i needed a new boiler British Gas took one look at a patch of asbestos in the roof of our outhouse and quoted £1500 to remove and dispose of it...stuff that. I took it to our tip for free.

 

[henry1]

That's what I meant.
Around our way, they are trying to eliminate domestic waste in bin bags, by as much as possible.
We have a 3 bag limit, to be collected every 3 weeks. This may be reducing to 2 bags shortly. One local council is collecting every 4 weeks.
Hence why our tips don't accept black bags - otherwise, it would be a shortcut to avoid the necessary recycling.

No, there are no issues with bin bags at our tip.

 

[henry1]

Some Councils charge for waste disposal at a tip - maybe yours limits a trip to five bags for free then charges for more?

No charges but I think you are all missing the point of my question.
Why put barriers in place when people are trying to do the right thing and dispose of waste correctly?
Surely this is encouraging flytipping?

 

[Murdochcat]

Council tips and their policies vary hugely.

Just accept that and move on

 

[cdbe]

Generally (all local authorities seem to differ) it's a weekly limit and it must be what more or less works works for them in controlling trade waste. Go with the flow or subsidise your local dodgy traders.

 

[RandomGrinch]

No charges but I think you are all missing the point of my question.
Why put barriers in place when people are trying to do the right thing and dispose of waste correctly?
Surely this is encouraging flytipping?

I may be missing the point; but my point is, you could count yourself lucky you are allowed to dispose of bin bags, in the first place!

 

[JohnD]

No charges but I think you are all missing the point of my question.
Why put barriers in place when people are trying to do the right thing and dispose of waste correctly?
Surely this is encouraging flytipping?

In my area, for a while, they charged for all building and DIY waste, for example a bag of bricks or a WC pan.

This did lead to fly tipping.

They now allow a few bags each month so a diyer can do a weekend job and take what will fit in his car, for free

But a builder can't take vanloads.

And a DIYer doing a major building job will have to hire a skip.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

It's probably a bit of a clumsy way of stopping tradespeople trying to use the tip as diyers.

A small amount allowed to be tipped makes it not worthwhile for them. Too many traders seem to think they can bend rules to suit themselves so we all endup with the restrictions.

I agree with the point about it encouraging flytipping, but as long as the rules are applied to all, then it achieves its aim, even if it leaves other issues

 

[Koolpc]

Happened to me before so i left the extra outside my local tip's gate at night. No cameras there...

I remember years ago asking how much to pick u an appliance. They wanted £25!!

So, i just dragged it down the street, and reported it as dumped. It was collected the next day!!

You know, we pay for a service yet it sucks!!!