Waste Plasterboard

Goweresque · Jun 2, 2022

Oldmacdonald said:
Trade can bloody well pay for their waste disposal.

I don't want to pay my council tax for disposal of some waste gathered by 'man with van's.

Given the actual cost of allowing small tradesmen to tip their waste for free at the council waste depot would be minimal (in council spending terms) I think its daft not to let them. The alternative means we (as farmers) end up with fly tipping everywhere, which can never be stopped, as enforcing the existing laws is virtually impossible.

Basically we have to chose between free tipping for all (trade and domestic) or having a country that looks like a rubbish tip.

ollie989898 · Jun 2, 2022

Oldmacdonald said:
Trade can bloody well pay for their waste disposal.

I don't want to pay my council tax for disposal of some waste gathered by 'man with van's.

If the tip won't take the stuff then you will just find it fly tipped all over the shop. What does this cost the tax payer? Big money, that is what.

bobk · Jun 2, 2022

ollie989898 said:
If the tip won't take the stuff then you will just find it fly tipped all over the shop. What does this cost the tax payer? Big money, that is what.

A good builder doesn't waste plasterboard just have a few more joints

Lofty1984 · Jun 2, 2022

bobk said:
A good builder doesn't waste plasterboard just have a few more joints

You can’t reuse old stuff that’s been ripped out though can you

bobk · Jun 2, 2022

Lofty1984 said:
You can’t reuse old stuff that’s been ripped out though can you

Correct

wanton dwarf · Jun 2, 2022

ollie989898 said:
If the tip won't take the stuff then you will just find it fly tipped all over the shop. What does this cost the tax payer? Big money, that is what.

Thing is, if it can be recycled and is good say for Agriculture or indeed any other purpose .. then it's a matter of processing, repackaging and selling - or even given free to an end user.

Shame we don't have those advocating Recycling not actually doing it.

Wurzeetoo · Jun 2, 2022

Tawmix at Winkleigh airfield recycle plasterboard last time i was there. Nice trip out with the trailer and a stop off at Winkleigh cider

Lincsman · Jun 2, 2022

wanton dwarf said:
Thing is, if it can be recycled and is good say for Agriculture or indeed any other purpose .. then it's a matter of processing, repackaging and selling - or even given free to an end user.

Shame we don't have those advocating Recycling not actually doing it.

They do hundreds of tonnes/day, when tipping is hard due to wet fields I get ground up gypsum for free, the paper element is used for cattle bedding apparently.

teslacoils · Jun 2, 2022

wanton dwarf said:
Thing is, if it can be recycled and is good say for Agriculture or indeed any other purpose .. then it's a matter of processing, repackaging and selling - or even given free to an end user.

Shame we don't have those advocating Recycling not actually doing it.

Sadly, EA has shat on the recycled gypsum to agriculture with its stupid limits on quantity. IE too little to do any good or be economic to get spreaders in.

TripleSix · Jun 2, 2022

Last lot we had from house renovations I chucked it on the floor of the sheep shed before it was bedded up.

It had all but disintegrated by the time we mucked out.

Open fronted shed...

muppet · Jun 2, 2022

I’ve always managed to get local skip company to take plasterboard in dumpy bags.

Hjcarter · Jun 2, 2022

Anyone recycling in notts/ derby area??

little_p · Jun 3, 2022

Ffermer Bach said:
I was wanting to take something to my local recycling centre, looked on line, I have to book an appointment and take proof of my address/identification with me (according to the website), I have a feeling all this is due to Covid? Funny that throughout Covid the supermarkets managed to stay open with out having to pre book or take identification. Of course they are there to sell and make money, council are there to support the jobs of the council workers! Is it any wonder that there are problems with fly tipping!

Not related to Covid, it is to stop your taxes being used to dispose of waste from people that live outside the area.

You sure that you still have to book an appointment? Our local dump stopped that ages ago.
Keep your head down, some councils deem farmers as businesses therefore any waste taken to the dump would be (chargeable) industrial waste.

Bald n Grumpy · Jun 3, 2022

Here in Monmouthshire every household was issued with a pass to stop people out of the area using the tip, pretty sure you still have to book a slot on line

Ffermer Bach · Jun 3, 2022

Bald n Grumpy said:
Here in Monmouthshire every household was issued with a pass to stop people out of the area using the tip, pretty sure you still have to book a slot on line

would people really travel out of area to take a bit of rubbish to the tip? Far enough for me to go to my local tip! And even if they did, is that such a calamity, surely far better to have rubbish in a recycling centre than the cost to the tax payer of cleaning up fly tipped waste.

Bald n Grumpy · Jun 4, 2022

Ffermer Bach said:
would people really travel out of area to take a bit of rubbish to the tip? Far enough for me to go to my local tip! And even if they did, is that such a calamity, surely far better to have rubbish in a recycling centre than the cost to the tax payer of cleaning up fly tipped waste.

The one tip is quite close to the county and the border with England so yes people were travelling out of area

Ffermer Bach · Jun 4, 2022

Bald n Grumpy said:
The one tip is quite close to the county and the border with England so yes people were travelling out of area

is that such a problem, with disposing of waste in a responsible manner, when it's not in the area for that council, after all we are all one country in the end (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), so if it is in a different fiscal area, so what? Maybe, better for the environment to drive to the nearest disposal centre. All this, you are the wrong council to dispose of rubbish here, sounds too much like "jobs worth" or "computer says no" to me.

ollie989898 · Jun 4, 2022

Ffermer Bach said:
is that such a problem, with disposing of waste in a responsible manner, when it's not in the area for that council, after all we are all one country in the end (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), so if it is in a different fiscal area, so what? Maybe, better for the environment to drive to the nearest disposal centre. All this, you are the wrong council to dispose of rubbish here, sounds too much like "jobs worth" or "computer says no" to me.

I agree, it is moronic. It's councils who couldn't run a pish up in a brewery. Discourage people from taking waste to their local tip for correct disposal and instead encourage even the law abiding to just dump the stuff. I see at our local tip they won't accept vehicles with triaxle trailers or any agricultural vehicles. Fudge that, take anything and everything, even if it means charging people a couple of quid. Otherwise you'll find it in field gateways or dumped on the side of the road.

Bald n Grumpy · Jun 4, 2022

Ffermer Bach said:
is that such a problem, with disposing of waste in a responsible manner, when it's not in the area for that council, after all we are all one country in the end (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), so if it is in a different fiscal area, so what? Maybe, better for the environment to drive to the nearest disposal centre. All this, you are the wrong council to dispose of rubbish here, sounds too much like "jobs worth" or "computer says no" to me.

Agree up to a point, but why should I pay council tax for a good waste disposal service to be used by people from other areas were perhaps the council spend on other things and don't provide such a good waste disposal service

slackjawedyokel · Jun 4, 2022

I know of someone that added a substantial amount of plasterboard to the cattle bedding over winter several years ago (not the best farmer around- the amount may have been up to 100% at times

). Never heard of any ill effects to the cattle.
A small quantity like a few dumpy bags of just plasterboard - think I would save it for now and add it a bag at a time to cattle bedding; let them trample it all up and break it up with the damp and their feet. I doubt there would be anything much distinguishable in the resulting muck heap.

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