Member Since: 14 Apr 2017
Location: Behind you
Posts: 1035
Local tip now charges you
Went to the local tip the other day with some rubble / gravel from next doors driveway (no I didn't pinch it. Just helping them with some landscaping)
Anyways getting back to the point that the local tip now charges you £2 per bag to get rid of your bricks / rubble etc. - what next.....
27th May 2019 10:05 pm
galwaygreen
Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
Location: plymouth
Posts: 6525
wait till you take plasterboard and asbestos down there
27th May 2019 10:09 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14430
Another cost for the farmers as it will be dumped on their land and another blight to the countryside. D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!) Sold
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
27th May 2019 10:10 pm
terryall
Member Since: 17 Jun 2011
Location: Whitstable
Posts: 1433
Our local tip won’t take plaster board or soil. Even the soil on plant roots/ weeds etc has to be taken off before dumping. Then they watch you empty each bag in case you cheat! Anything you’ve brought against the “rules” means your car registration is logged and you may not be permitted entry on next visit. Didn’t stop them taking a “tip” from a lady dumping bags of something.
28th May 2019 3:33 am
mick_n3
Member Since: 19 May 2017
Location: Kettering
Posts: 437
Re: Local tip now charges you
life - live it wrote:
local tip now charges you £2 per bag to get rid of your bricks / rubble etc. - what next.....
They then sell it to local builders etc for hardcore,
Nice little earner for them,
Our local tip records you reg number and your only allowed in so many times, and if i go more than twice in a month in the disco I have to get a permit as they consider a large 4x4 a commercial vehicle.
M6NIO
28th May 2019 5:40 am
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
As from June in Kent its 4 pound a bag of soil or hardcore and 6.50 per bag of plasterboard, how big the bags are I dont know before anyone asks!
Fly tipping is going to go viral.
28th May 2019 6:01 am
Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
Oh Hell. Thankfully up here, no charge for domestic users, although you have to fill in a form if you take it to the dump in a trailer or a van.
28th May 2019 6:38 am
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15264
Clearing out my garage before moving from North Yorks, I took a few bags of old tile cement,grout, plaster, cement & sand to the tip.
There were just remnants in the old bags, tip charged me £1 per bag, so £5 in total.
Now had I known that, I'd have emptied them all into the one bag, paid just £1 and saved myself £4!
(Or I could've used the stuff to fill in a pothole and charged the council £5!)...... always on the road less travelled 🚧
28th May 2019 6:47 am
Kilovolt
Member Since: 29 Jun 2015
Location: South Derbyshire
Posts: 1072
Took an Ensuite shower door into the local tip (South Derbyshire) only a few weeks ago.
"That's trade waste and you are likely a plumber - that will be £6".
WTF.
Can I have some money off my Council Tax, please?
I'm guessing not."Track day running - Don't put your foot back on the accelerator until your absolutely sure you don't have to take it off again"
Current Ride: D4 XS Commercial Baltic Blue SDV6 fully loaded with heated everything
Track Days: BMW E36 M3 Evolution MY 1996 (3.2 Litre 377 BHP sat in 1,250 Kgs of car, with a pro safety cage and some serious braking power)
28th May 2019 7:00 am
Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
That’s bad. There used to be a time when you could put out anything for the scaffies and they’d take it.
I don’t mind taking it to the tip, but charging you? Surely anything it costs them to recycle is more than made up because people then tend not to fly tip?
28th May 2019 7:04 am
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13557
The Government charges tip owners (including Councils) land fill tax, so everything that goes in the ground costs the tip owner money. As most tips are Council owned, and Councils have been mercilessly hit by Government's austerity regime ("we're all in it together (as we take a huge pay rise)"), Councils are trying to find funds where they can.
As usual, Councils get the blame for Government actions.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
28th May 2019 7:07 am
Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
Oh, enter fill the trailer up and get rid of all the rubbish I have before my Council starts charging then.
28th May 2019 7:25 am
Scott #55
Member Since: 15 Apr 2015
Location: UK
Posts: 1683
Dump it on the pavement and put a 'For Sale - £50' and it'll be away by next morning.
28th May 2019 7:51 am
sycove
Member Since: 25 Mar 2015
Location: Burntisland
Posts: 396
The Dundonian wrote:
Oh Hell. Thankfully up here, no charge for domestic users, although you have to fill in a form if you take it to the dump in a trailer or a van.
In Fife we now have a 1.9m access bar, anything over 1.9m and you need to fill out the form before they open the barrier.
I just love the look of disappointment on their faces when I pull up, stick it in access mode and limbo dance under the bar
28th May 2019 8:34 am
Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
Quite like Scott’s idea. In days of old I put an old washing machine out for collection and it was gone come the morning.
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum