Silage wrap cardboard tubes

[Chonk]

Feeling frustrated this morning as we are phoning round recyclers and none of them seem to want to take cardboard cores or boxes from silage wrap ?? They will charge us to take them to landfill but this just seems a waste.
Apparently they burn too hot to send to a incinerator, one firm says all cardboard has to be baled up to take it to them.
Apart from November 5th anyone have any useful ways or contacts for disposal of these things ??
Don’t mind just hiring a skip for disposal, it just seems criminal to do it or to just burn them
I currently have about 200 tubes and rising and some plastic cores also to dispose of, as well as the boxes [emoji57]

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Rather have the cardboard ones than the plastic ones...chuck them in a 45 gallon drum with a match

 

[Welsh hill boy]

Try oswestry waste paper, took a load of boxes and tubes there a few years ago, no payment just a waste transfer ticket for farm assurance. Not bothered since as far easier and quicker to tip in a pile and burn

 

[happycows]

Run chainsaw through them and chuck couple a night in the wood burner here. Beats heating the house with heating oil

 

[JeepJeep]

Tubes if half decent and decent size could go on ebay probably.. Collection Only no fecking about then.

95% of what I send out goes out in recycled packaging off goods in and from a Hospital Catering dept

 

[applejack]

I'm with @happycows on this, run the saw through them and then on the woodburner.

 

[Hesstondriver]

cardboard will break down very quickly if chucked in a cow yard , than on to muck heap

 

[DRC]

My contractor leaves them for the customer to deal with.

 

[Chasingmytail]

chuck it on the compost surely you have some garden weeds that need covering? Ours goes into the muck. It will break down easily.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

chuck it on the compost surely you have some garden weeds that need covering? Ours goes into the muck. It will break down easily.

They don’t break down easily... ive chucked loads in with the cows and they always come back out the muckspreader

 

[Chonk]

chuck it on the compost surely you have some garden weeds that need covering? Ours goes into the muck. It will break down easily.

I think 250 plus tubes might overpower my compost bin [emoji12]

 

[Chonk]

My contractor leaves them for the customer to deal with.

Yes I’ve seen contractors dump their waste in customers fields when they finish never looks very professional to me and as I supply the wrap I feel it’s my responsibility [emoji57]

 

[kmo]

Sell them to gardeners to grow leeks and celery in.

 

[JD-Kid]

Sell them to gardeners to grow leeks and celery in.

sell them some old tires too to grow. spuds in
I was. going to say. cut them in to 4-5 inch high. rings. and. pot trees in then. once. growing plant then out tube. and all

 

[Henarar]

cut them up and put them on the woodburner
I won't buy the stuff with plastic tubes

 

[applejack]

Local pest control guy used to take some of the plastic cores to use for baiting runs.

 

[Chonk]

Local pest control guy used to take some of the plastic cores to use for baiting runs.

I have funnily enough used a few for that purpose .... core drilled a hole in the middle and added a length of waste pipe to fill with bait [emoji106]

 

[JD-Kid]

Local pest control guy used to take some of the plastic cores to use for baiting runs.

done that. with some here
also make good. cubbly holes in workshop if stacked up on there. edges cut to length. files. etc etc welding rod packets. etc

 

[Happy hillbily]

The cardboard tubes i cut and put on the log burner.
There was a guy on facebook last year wanting the plastic ones, he had a two acre field he wanted to drain.

 

[Chonk]

The cardboard tubes i cut and put on the log burner.
There was a guy on facebook last year wanting the plastic ones, he had a two acre field he wanted to drain.

[emoji23][emoji23] necessity ... the mother of invention !!