Fly tipping. . .

[TheTallGuy]

That's for arranging collection of large items - the charge is for collection rather than disposal. Taking domestic waste to a recycling centre in suffolk is still free apart from rubble, soil & plasterboard, which they consider to be non-domestic.

 

[Bongodog]

Part of the problem is Council recycling centres coming up with ever more convoluted rules to stop people taking rubbish in. I see one post saying that Suffolk consider earth and rubble to be non domestic waste, so what happens when a diy er does their own patio ?
Meanwhile a relative tells me that in Cardiff they check your driving licence and turn away anyone who doesn't have an address on it within the city limits.
Here in Cambridgeshire the latest rules prohibit any vehicle "larger than a standard Transit van". The result is that my single wheeled transit pick up is banned, damned inconvenient to both me and my staff who used to borrow it to take in their old washing machines, broken garden fences etc. On my last visit having had to put the junk in the back of my nice clean car I was peed off to firstly see a Discovery towing a horsebox full of crap which is nearly twice the length but meets the rules, and the usual weekend collection of electricians plumbers etc in clearly marked vans dropping off their trade waste. You even see some of them inside the vans doing a weekly sort of the rubbish before throwing it in the bins.
Apparently one of the reasons for banning larger vans and pick ups is health and safety, anyone who has witnessed people reversing their cars and trailers at the tip will know exactly who should be banned.

 

[roscoe erf]

Part of the problem is Council recycling centres coming up with ever more convoluted rules to stop people taking rubbish in. I see one post saying that Suffolk consider earth and rubble to be non domestic waste, so what happens when a diy er does their own patio ?
Meanwhile a relative tells me that in Cardiff they check your driving licence and turn away anyone who doesn't have an address on it within the city limits.
Here in Cambridgeshire the latest rules prohibit any vehicle "larger than a standard Transit van". The result is that my single wheeled transit pick up is banned, damned inconvenient to both me and my staff who used to borrow it to take in their old washing machines, broken garden fences etc. On my last visit having had to put the junk in the back of my nice clean car I was peed off to firstly see a Discovery towing a horsebox full of crap which is nearly twice the length but meets the rules, and the usual weekend collection of electricians plumbers etc in clearly marked vans dropping off their trade waste. You even see some of them inside the vans doing a weekly sort of the rubbish before throwing it in the bins.
Apparently one of the reasons for banning larger vans and pick ups is health and safety, anyone who has witnessed people reversing their cars and trailers at the tip will know exactly who should be banned.

made me laugh needed to dump an old sofa so went in a sign written land rover and they told me it was trade waste so I had to pay since when do farmers farm sofas I said didn't matter mr jobs worth said so I drove out parked up down the road and walked it in nothing said

 

[rjchapma]

That's for arranging collection of large items - the charge is for collection rather than disposal. Taking domestic waste to a recycling centre in suffolk is still free apart from rubble, soil & plasterboard, which they consider to be non-domestic.

York also charge! http://www.york.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/5798/chargeable_waste_prices_-_hazel_court_hwrc.pdf

 

[uztrac]

Councils can't charge householders for domestic waste disposal only businesses. Council sites have to licenced by the EA and most will not have a licence for commercial waste. That is why they are usually hot on kicking out people they think are traders.

Come to Norfolk where they do charge domestic users for disposal.

 

[Enfoff]

Councils can charge for building waste from your home because that's not classed as domestic - its called controlled waste. You pay for you domestic collection in your council tax so reclassifying waste as building/controlled has just made it easier for the councils to make a bit of money. Its all rubbish really.

 

[farmerm]

Chadwick lane two or three years back they set fire to the conifer cuttings in the lane. Then backed the next load on. Hedgecutting contractor witnessed it from the field.
The wife has also cycled with friends near there this summer and helped a lorry driver clear the tree prunings off the road so they could get through.
I gather this autumn at Dunley they drove across a wheat field and left deposits where ever it took their fancy
Luckily I don’t Farm there, but the antics do spill out into the wider area

Hedge cutter should have flailed the offending vehicle

 

[Bongodog]

York also charge! http://www.york.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/5798/chargeable_waste_prices_-_hazel_court_hwrc.pdf

At least your waste sites will take trade waste in return for a fee, ours just turn people away by saying "its trade waste" even when it isn't. As its then a 15 mile drive to the nearest commercial tip, who of course aren't open at weekends is it any wonder stuff gets dumped.

 

[Smiffy101]

There was a greenwatse site in bromley
A private site operating on a farm but it got to big for the premesis so moved to another farm
They were cheap and taking about 30 to 50 van loads a day they also accepeted small amounts at a fair rate a fiver for a builders bag i tthink
Travelers even used the site it was so cheap
However someone complained about the smell the council decided the exemption they where running under was wrong and didnt apply also decided it needed planning permission
So shut the site down
That is about as short sited as you can be