Fun Day out for all "A trip to the local Tip"

[PoPrivit]

Moved house earlier this year and finally sold my old house.

So this weekend came the time to clear out the shed and garden.

Had some old wheels from my S III that i've been meaning to get rid of so as i had the use of a 110 Hi cap for the weekend off i went with my youngest lad myles to the tip.

First hurdle convince the chap that i'm not a commercial vehicle  :shock: unlike the tipper transit in front thats just been let in.  

Second was those faitfull words "sorry mate but we can't take that" i thought he ment the old fridge that i was unloading, but know it was the wheels. We thats not strictly true, the wheels he would take but the tyres on them he would not. :shock:

So there you are you live in a rural village and every unused gateway is full of old car wheels and other rubbish. You pay through the nose for your council tax and they sweep the road once a year and dont grit the road in the winter.

But they can't clear away the fly tipping as they don't have the resource. :?

but they get picky as to what they will take at the local tip........ :idea:

is it just me............I think not.........so when my old disco goes to the scrap man guess whats going to be inside... :D

[Baby_Rhino]

put them on your local free cycle- i bet someone snaps them up within a few hours!  

[Legionnaire]

I have just had a similar experiance, I went in the Mitsubishi to the local tip, question, do you have a permit? yes I replied (it covers the Animal and the Landrover) Ah but this permit only covers green waste and you have household rubbish on (1 old plastic swimming pool and a bag from the bin) you need a blue permit for this which covers you for one trip only.

So in Calderdale to be green I have to take the grass in one vehicle, drive home, load the household rubbish into the Jeep and then back to the tip where I can then dump without a permit whilst everone else can fill their estate cars to the top without any permit. Discrimination!

How stupid, I have written tyo my local councillor - see what happens.

Andrew

[rollazuki]

Dont even get me started on my local dumpit site/amenity.

uneducated, rude, jobsworth, no idea of customer service, next to useless.
 doesnt even scratch thru the surface of it!!!!

[dazzawhipple]

Tips

I got banned from my old local one......cause I lost it at the legalised pikey and threatened to bury his head in the side of a cabin.


All about him not letting my 2a in with a trailor then refusing my disco with the same trailor in five minutes later


Jumped up little hitlers

Darren

[PoPrivit]

if i had been on my own i would have tipped the lot on the floor and drove off. :x

told me if i wanted to leave it in a gateway then that was my choice :? .........

Still Had a nice box full of old Computer bits........just let him see it before i chucked it as far into the skip as i could...... 8) ...for some reason he didn't look happy.

[waveydavey]

I must be lucky;

The guys at our local tip are very co-operaqtive; I turn up with a tipper trailer and if the load is for landfil anyway they often let me drive around the back to tip it myself.

The only problem I had recently was the dippy girl in the council office who didn't tell me that the asbestos I had to dump had to o through through a three foot hole; not easy with a four foot panel. The guy up there was nothing but superb and he helped me get it in.

That said my mate in Plymouth cannot get rid of his azzie at all; is it any wonder they get fly tipping?

[beast5680]

haha i went to the tip sunday morning with my van full of rubbish from the garage, they wont let me in but they will let me use their barrow to carry all the stuff, trouble is every one else in their shoebox cars who start having a go cos they think your jumping the que :roll:  i had to bite my tongue at one woman and politly explain that as the height limit is 5 ft 8 i cant get in and have to do it this way then she parks so close to the bin i cant get the barrow to the side so i emptied on the floor in front of her car and put everything in piece by piece  :twisted:  and made her wait 15 mins as all she dumped was a half bin bag of grass

[Rich_P]

Why are they always like this?  :roll:

They have the legal obligation of letting your vehicle in if you are not dumping for commercial reasons.  If your vehicle is too tall for the barrier, then they have to open the barrier for you to let the vehicle through.

[smo]

Why are they always like this?  :roll:

They have the legal obligation of letting your vehicle in if you are not dumping for commercial reasons.  If your vehicle is too tall for the barrier, then they have to open the barrier for you to let the vehicle through.

You wanna come and tell the local muppets that run my tip that? They will open the barriers to all and sundry for commercial waste etc. but not for me with my RECYCLING (because the curbside collection is crap and they refuse to take anything but paper...so i have to take the card, plastic, glass and metal myself!)

[Rich_P]

Get in contact with the council then.  They should be able to deal with these people, or better yet, next time tell them that if they don't open it you will get in contact with the authourity that governs that site.  Hopefully they'll then move and get the barrier/gate moved, if they don't... well you know what to do.  

[Bush Tucker Man]

At the local one just up the road (I won't name it, but the name could be thought of as a 'healthy-stream'), there used to be a right grumpy arrogant so & so.

I'd seen him at a previous council tip, but when that was closed he moved to this one.

He wouldn't even open the gate for the Councils own vans at times & ignore the drivers completely.
I've even been told he'd measure a trailer to check it's size was within the guide-lines (6x4) h
He'd turn an an oversized one away unemptied!!!
He tried that one with me the day after I bought it, but I had a I-W catalogue showing that it was their smallest product.

I got threatened with the Police with him once, as when I was digging out an old rose-bed in the garden (about 6' x 8', & 2' deep)
I took 3 loads of soil & he came over shouting about "1 trailer a day only!", and "Hire a skip in future!!"

I handed him my mobile & asked him to dial, or he could write down my details from my driving licence & ask the local Bobby to call in.

Sadly the Site-Manager appeared before he could make his next move. :roll:

I've since been told that the only reason he wasn't fired after inumerable complaints was that he'd lose part of his pension (whether that can be done I don't know?)

So, if I've got a lot to dump, I'll nip down the M62 & head up to the site at Temple Newsham to the east of Leeds, no issues here with quantities, or permits

[blackbob]

dont let me into local tip with the disco cos its to high
so have to use a trolly and q jump
and tried to get rid of waste oil and was told 5liters only per house hold
trouble is the disco had just had a ful service so i had 3 5liter containers
 

[Bush Tucker Man]

tried to get rid of waste oil and was told 5liters only per house hold
trouble is the disco had just had a ful service so i had 3 5liter containers
 

A friend of mine contructed his own oil-burning heater for his worshop, so stockpiles it all for winter useage

[chris9119]

You want to live in Walsall, West Midlands.

They have lowered the bar to 5' 7". To gain access you must call the office - Mon to Fri 09:00 to 16:00 (closed for lunch 12:00 to 14:00). They assign you an entry time. If your late, you have to re book.

Now, when you do get your number and time to get in, you are only allowed a certain amount of rubbish. I.e., 8 bricks, 1 bag of rubble, green waste, but not in bags, etc, etc, etc.

To make things worse, they have just advised the following: -

Due to a number of residents not sorting the recyclaables, wardens will be checking the bins. If found to contain mixed waste, the bin will be marked and the Environmental Waste Operatives (dust persons) will miss you out.

You will have to sort through and call that number again to arrange for an additional van to be sent out to make the collection.

If its found that you have not sorted the bin correctly, you could face a penalty charge of £1000.00.

Now, looking in the paper, the local fly tipper only gets fined £300 and £100 costs, so what do you think that most people are going to do.......

I think my council are large holes where brown stuff comes out of (yes, your guess was correct).

Chris

[Eeyore]

My local one can be difficult so I got a letter form the general manager stating that if I'm dumping household waste, they are not to stop me.

I pulled a dirty great pine out of my front garden once - filled two 11os, mine and Wolfies. So, off down the tip we head.

'Whassin the back, mate?' asks Jobsworth.  :-k
'A tree out my front garden garden, my mate behind has the other half', says I.  :)
'Is it commercial?' he asks.  :-k
'Nope, it's out my front garden. I can show you the hole'  :?
'You sure it's not commercial?'  [-(
'Yes'  :?
'These works vans?'  [-(
'No', I replies, getting a tad irritable.  :x
'Then why's he got the same car?' says he feeling smug.  =;
'Really? What car do you drive?'  :roll:
'I got a Mondeo, mate' responds Herbert Knuckledragger  :-s
'Do any of your friends have Mondeos?' I ask.  
'Yeah, my mate bought one because I said how good mine was'  :-s
'Bingo. Now let me in before I dump this where you stand'.  

Muppets.  :roll:

cheers
 8)
Eeyore

[Tiny Tim]

Got 4 old tyres to dispose of so rang the local tip and they won't take em.  Tyre specialists want £5 a tyre to dispose of em

Might as well dump em down a lane somewhere !

(but no - I wouldn't, but I'm beginning to see why people do)

[NiceBlueWellies]

i emptied on the floor in front of her car and put everything in piece by piece  :twisted:  and made her wait 15 mins as all she dumped was a half bin bag of grass

 :(biglaugh):  :(biglaugh):

My sort of person - just what I would do.

 :(biglaugh):  :(biglaugh):

[Baby_Rhino]

Got 4 old tyres to dispose of so rang the local tip and they won't take em.  Tyre specialists want £5 a tyre to dispose of em

Might as well dump em down a lane somewhere !

(but no - I wouldn't, but I'm beginning to see why people do)

a local riding school might want them- they have millions of uses for old tyres; anything from holding water buckets to being used in making jumps  :D

[Tiny Tim]

Thanks Emms

Lods of them round here  

[Wolfie]

Tyre specialists want £5 a tyre to dispose of em

That's pricy  :o

Last ones I got rid of in Cov were a quid a corner.

Actually, that was the set before the single one I got rid of the other week, they didn't charge me anything for that one, or the u/s rim.

Try another tyre fitters, or wait until you can get to a less overpriced part of the country.

Regards

Wolfie

[MrTFWitt]

My local tip, errrr I mean "Recycling Centre" is happy to take tyres at a pound a time.

If they are on a rim I only have to pay 75p   :?

Last time I wanted 4 tyres the tyre place wanted £2.50 to pay the environmental tax on each tyre so they went to be recycled at a pound a go cos it was on the way home.  
I can be that tight when somebody wants to fleece me under the pretence of being eco friendly.

[thermidorthelobster]

I went to the tip with some old doors on the roofrack.

Apparently they have to charge me if I have stuff on the roof, because in the eye of the local council that makes me commercial...

So I pulled up opposite the gateway, took the stuff off the roof, put it on the inside (with the door open) and drove back in.  They didn't have a problem with that.

Our lot now don't take oil, which is annoying as I have to travel elsewhere to get rid of it now.  They also don't take plastics, so I can recycle cardboard and glass there but then have to take my plastics to the supermarket.

Regarding recycling, Surrey CC collect cans and newspapers from the door, but we have to take our own cardboard, magazines and glass to the supermarket.  In contrast, my dad in Devon puts his recycling out, suitably sorted, and they collect it all;  and other people I know just chuck all the recyclables out together and the council collect it and sort it.  Way to go, Surrey.

[NiceBlueWellies]

I ponder once more -

Is is envionmentaly friendy to have to drive to where you have to recycle or not?  What if it is a good few miles away.  What if you go every week?  Are you really doing your bit, or not, because of all the polution you are causing using your vehicle, when otherwise you would not have to drive it at all?

Maybe councils should do more and collect all thing that can be recycled.  Wish ours would collect plastic milk containers like the neighbouring council do!  They give us a tiny bin to force us to recycle - fair enough, but they should then contribute thmeselves saving us from polluting further, and having to drive to a recycling point.  :shock:

[MK-90]

Hmmm

I must be lucky indeed.

Did a favour for my neighbours. They needed 2 tonnes of hard core moving from a wall they had knocked down. Fair enough. Loaded up the 90 with as much as i dared and went down the tip expecting trouble. All in all i made 6 trips that day...only 3 were for the rubble.

The chaps were extremelly friendly..even helped me out unloading. Me in builders battered landy with a commercial body on.

Absolute ldgends :D

Go onto your council website to find out where to take your tyres

[blackbob]

we recycle as much as pos and we have cut our bin ammount by about a therd also most green oval type vehicle are re cycled
the animal is a good example was two scrap cars now its just one

[Baby_Rhino]

Regarding recycling, Surrey CC collect cans and newspapers from the door, but we have to take our own cardboard, magazines and glass to the supermarket.  In contrast, my dad in Devon puts his recycling out, suitably sorted, and they collect it all;  and other people I know just chuck all the recyclables out together and the council collect it and sort it.  Way to go, Surrey.

Incorrect!

I depends what borough of Surrey you live in.

If you live in the Boroughs of Guildford or Waverley (West Surrey) then they collect paper, card, tin, glass, magazines, newspapers. The only thing they don't take in those Boroughs is Plastic: and the local tesco takes that.  

ps- used to work for Surrey CC    they are quite a good CC in comparison to many others!

[davidlandy]

i love this subject!

I get the feeling that my local tip in kettering is the same one that the original poster uses - they are unbeleiveable down there , you can come in here in that today, its a van (my 90),  cant do this cant do that - thats wood m8, nope thats metal, you'll need to put that in the hardcore skip, metal objects over there , did i see you inhere earlier? thats twice in a month therefore your banned...blah blah

you can see why fly tipping happens - my view is that every instance of fly tipping is an outright failure of the local tip management (or the policies)- THEY should be made to clear it up and have the money it cost  deducted from their budget or fee they are paid from council.

if they see something in your rubbish that they want then they are very helpful - I just make sure now that everything i take down there is smashed up so it has no resale value to them.

GRRRRRRRR

[mark.yellow.series.3]

well my local tip will take commercial vehicles :D  vans and the lot, but they wont take a van with a trailer over 8' long :D or more then 3 visits in a day.

but did you know they cant accually refuse (no pun :lol: ) you if you come in a commercial vehicle, if you say its household waste, they might um and ahh, and refuse you entry again, but if you turn up they will let you tip...... so ive been told, and i must say ive never been refused entry, in my van or 7.5 tonner.

but as far as your tyres go, just sheet them down in your front yard and let some scumbag pinch them :lol:

[dave_2A_2.25Turbo]

Our local:

Height now 6' - can't get the Disco or the Series in
No vans - can't use the Astra
No walking stuff in - Can't use any of the above

So I either use an MX5 (I don't think so!)
or borrow the Clio back from my daughter (a pain now that she's got her own flat)