Littering

[sars]

[ref]pvr[/ref], The punishment for this should be severe, five years in prison say, so that they don't do it or the local tip is made free and unlimited for sole traders or small businesses

 

[MikeyH]

They stopped taking everything for free years ago here. I suppose if they still did it would put the local rates up, of course it’s us that have to pay to have fly tipping clearance so a lose, lose situation. I personally think it’s becoming a money making racket by the council. A few years ago they started charging for a fortnightly garden bin collection.

 

[TitanTim]

It's easy to blame Local Government for putting up this and that, just renewed my garden waste bin yearly collection fee which has gone up from £36 to £42.

It's central Government you have to point the finger at as they are limiting budgets to Councils and encouraging them to be more self financing through whatever schemes they can dream up to make money from the likes of you and me, Council Tax, car parking fees, waste disposal fees etc will all keep going up so long as their Central Government monies keeps being cut. Some Councils are better than others at generating money, others have simply gone bankrupt or run out of talent.

One of the reasons I was glad to leave Local Government as it was more and more being run like a private business which I never thought was a good thing.

Tim.

 

[Pondrew]

If you took it to our council tip you'd be told you can only have two of those, three of those, none of that and you'll have to pay for that one.
Oh and as you've arrived in a van (probably borrowed to shift everything) then you must be a trader and you can't come in.
Half the reason fly tipping happens.

Exactly! I am sure the 'employees' at the tip (skip rats in old money) are told to be as difficult as possible to discourage us from going there.
I was informed that I had to pay £10 to dump an old fence panel as apparently timber with preservative in can't be recycled! I told them to sod off as my Council Tax bill of £3,000 a year more than covers me for a fence panel every 10 years!

I have been banned from two Council tips and am now working on a third. If it happens I will have no choice other than to either fly tip, or drown in junk. Neither are appealing but the latter is not going to happen.

 

[Pondrew]

just renewed my garden waste bin yearly collection fee which has gone up from £36 to £42.

We can't get one! There is a 'waiting list' apparently. In the meantime, I am not supposed to put leaves out in bags in the general rubbish, as they won't take them!
The complete irony with this is that 99% of the leaves in our garden and driveway are from the Council's trees on the verge. You couldn't make it up.
I am NOT driving to the tip (while I can until I get a ban) to dump the Council's 'rubbish' at the Council's tip and pay £3,000 aa year in Council tax for the privilege! :x

 

[enuff_zed]

just renewed my garden waste bin yearly collection fee which has gone up from £36 to £42.

We can't get one! There is a 'waiting list' apparently. In the meantime, I am not supposed to put leaves out in bags in the general rubbish, as they won't take them!
The complete irony with this is that 99% of the leaves in our garden and driveway are from the Council's trees on the verge. You couldn't make it up.
I am NOT driving to the tip (while I can until I get a ban) to dump the Council's 'rubbish' at the Council's tip and pay £3,000 aa year in Council tax for the privilege! :x

Try piling all the leaves up and burning them, whilst adding all your waste engine oil and maybe a few plastic bottles too.
That will get the council's attention. :rofl:

 

[brillomaster]

to be honest, fly tipping i have some sympathy for. the council don't take the regular bins often enough, and then there are so many restrictions about what you can and cannot take to a tip that i can see why people fly tip. ideally, right outside a council office under the cover of darkness :evil:

however, littering is just sheer laziness and selfishness, and a complete lack of care. honestly, if i saw one of my friends just hoy a maccy d's drink out of a window i'd smack them.

 

[TitanTim]

to be honest, fly tipping i have some sympathy for. the council don't take the regular bins often enough, and then there are so many restrictions about what you can and cannot take to a tip that i can see why people fly tip. ideally, right outside a council office under the cover of darkness :evil:

however, littering is just sheer laziness and selfishness, and a complete lack of care. honestly, if i saw one of my friends just hoy a maccy d's drink out of a window i'd smack them.

Ironically it's the Local Council who have to clear up fly tipping mess at great expense, so in reality it's honest people paying to dispose of their waste legitimately who will most likely be paying for it or you or me through our Council Tax.

Tim.

 

[TitanTim]

just renewed my garden waste bin yearly collection fee which has gone up from £36 to £42.

We can't get one! There is a 'waiting list' apparently. In the meantime, I am not supposed to put leaves out in bags in the general rubbish, as they won't take them!
The complete irony with this is that 99% of the leaves in our garden and driveway are from the Council's trees on the verge. You couldn't make it up.
I am NOT driving to the tip (while I can until I get a ban) to dump the Council's 'rubbish' at the Council's tip and pay £3,000 aa year in Council tax for the privilege! :x

What annoys me is I found out recently that someone local to me rang my local council to complain they had seen their neighbour bag up their garden waste and put it in with their general household waste and it was taken away by the bin men which it shouldn't have been. The Council admitted they do take garden waste with regular household waste and advised to do the same. So I ask myself why am I paying a fee to the same council for my garden waste to be disposed of :headbang:

Tim.

 

[Pondrew]

The Council admitted they do take garden waste with regular household waste and advised to do the same.

Not here! My wife hides the leaves under general rubbish so they don't suspect. Ridiculous, isn't it? :?

 

[MikeyH]

Some years ago I took an old plastic bath tub to the tip and was told I'd have to pay £5.00 to leave it. I took it home much to my wife's annoyance. Over the next few months I broke it into little pieces and put it in the non recycling bin little piece by little piece. Not the money but the principle. It made me feel good. :evil:

 

[Pondrew]

Some years ago I took an old plastic bath tub to the tip and was told I'd have to pay £5.00 to leave it. I took it home much to my wife's annoyance. Over the next few months I broke it into little pieces and put it in the non recycling bin little piece by little piece. Not the money but the principle. It made me feel good.

I take great delight in pouring old engine oil down my drains. I also buy baby wipes in bulk and flush them just to make sure the water company is working for their extortionate charges.

One thing I have noticed is if I wear a 'hi vis' tabard when visiting the tip the skip rats are very pleasant to me. Downside is the public keep asking 'which bin should I put this in?'. Telling them 'feck off, do I look like I would work at a tip?' gets a little wearing!

 

[MikeyH]

Some years ago I took an old plastic bath tub to the tip and was told I'd have to pay £5.00 to leave it. I took it home much to my wife's annoyance. Over the next few months I broke it into little pieces and put it in the non recycling bin little piece by little piece. Not the money but the principle. It made me feel good.

I take great delight in pouring old engine oil down my drains. I also buy baby wipes in bulk and flush them just to make sure the water company is working for their extortionate charges.

One thing I have noticed is if I wear a 'hi vis' tabard when visiting the tip the skip rats are very pleasant to me. Downside is the public keep asking 'which bin should I put this in?'. Telling them 'feck off, do I look like I would work at a tip?' gets a little wearing!

Love it

 

[Nanu]

I just bag up the garden waste and it goes in the general waste bin. No issues with out bin men who on the whole are great.

A couple of my neighbours have got together and share the garden waste bins and the cost.

 

[Mr Tidy]

There's no excuse for littering, but I can sort of see why fly-tipping happens.

A mate of mine has a small Berlingo van but couldn't take it to the council tip unless he paid. Now he's got a VW Sharan so he can take twice as much rubbish for free!

 

[dr_john]

Try getting rid of paint around here - I needed a permit from the local council to drop off a few half empty cans. It only allowed 12 cans, I had about 20 to get rid of, built up over a few years.

The guy on the gate said ‘dump it over there mate’, so I dumped the whole lot and he couldn’t care less.

 

[MikeyH]

Yes, old paint tins with old paint in them is not easy to dispose off. Even the skips we hire won’t take them. :headbang:

 

[Chippie]

My local tip (recycling centre) are pretty good to be honest (it’s privately run), to be able to use my van I have to register online every year with a copy of the V5 and proof of address, that allows me 12 visits per year, depending on when you visit the queues can be ridiculously long and walking back and forth between the various skips can be a pain but I like to think I’m doing my little bit for the environment

 

[Pondrew]

Yes, old paint tins with old paint in them is not easy to dispose off. Even the skips we hire won’t take them.

Which is why every house in the Country has multiple tins of old paint in the shed/ garage when you buy them.
The old phrase "we've left you some spare paint and fence treatment in the shed in case you need it" is bollox. They couldn't get rid of it like the rest of us.

Whenever I hire a skip (I have to save up for a while these days) the first thing they say is "NO PAINT". I always say "so what am supposed to do with it; drink it?"
And don't even get me started with old tyres! It's got to a stage where I am going to phone Michelin and tell them to come and get their old tyres, as it seems that is the ONLY way of disposing of them!

 

[MikeyH]

Yes, old paint tins with old paint in them is not easy to dispose off. Even the skips we hire won’t take them.

Which is why every house in the Country has multiple tins of old paint in the shed/ garage when you buy them.
The old phrase "we've left you some spare paint and fence treatment in the shed in case you need it" is bollox. They couldn't get rid of it like the rest of us.

Whenever I hire a skip (I have to save up for a while these days) the first thing they say is "NO PAINT". I always say "so what am supposed to do with it; drink it?"
And don't even get me started with old tyres! It's got to a stage where I am going to phone Michelin and tell them to come and get their old tyres, as it seems that is the ONLY way of disposing of them!

I was at the tip a while ago and one the ‘little Hitlers’ ran over and was shouting that someone had just thrown a tyre in the skip. He looked really crest fallen when he realised he was wrong. :rofl: :rofl: