Local Authority Recycling Centres (used to be tips)

[IRD]

Took some rubbish to my nearest local authority recycling centre today. Only to find it closed. They have changed their opening times since I last went. Now closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays each week plus, of course, the usual bank holidays. What’s more all Lincolnshire’s centres are closed for the same two days every week. When they are open. The hours are quite limited, 9am to 4pm. At the gate there are additional hand written signs telling people not to enter the site after 3.15pm.
Regularly, there are items on the local Look North TV News about rubbish being dumped and the cost of clearing it up which runs into many thousands of pounds per annum.
Is it me or would it not make more sense to open the recycling centre more often to encourage people to use them. I know how fed up I was having to make a 16 mile round trip today for nothing.
There will always be some rogues but I’m sure easier access would mean more people conformed.
What’s it like in your area? :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: )

 

[PDJ]

You have to show a council tax letter with your address on to use the tip
Other than that ok and quite helpful staff

 

[BeeEmm]

My local centre is open every day of the year except Christmas Day. Staff are very helpful.

 

[IRD]

My local centre is open every day of the year except Christmas Day. Staff are very helpful.

That’s how it should be. I wish it was like that here.

 

[Pondrew]

Ours is Lincolnshire CC aswell.
Bloody awful place run by jumped-up skip rats, with a wholly inappropriate air of superiority and authority. They are only remotely helpful if you happen to be a 20-something, attractive lone female.
I avoid going to the tip if I possibly can, as I find it too stressful. Luckily for me they are hardly ever open, so it's easy to avoid.
Thursday, Friday, Sat and Sun 9 to 4. No extended hours in the Summer. And they often shut the gates at lunchtime, so not to be disturbed. They shouldn't do that, but they do.

Where I grew up, our local tip (and it was a proper tip) was open from sunrise to sunset 364 days a year. Often used to go at 9pm on a Summer's evening. Happy days....

 

[Pondrew]

Is it me or would it not make more sense to open the recycling centre more often to encourage people to use them.

I think it is the Council, in their warped sense of logic and reality, that think if they keep them closed the amount of rubbish they have to deal with will be less. As if by magic the amount of rubbish generated will be reduced by restricting the opening times of the tip.

Maybe they can't get the qualified staff needed to operate the tip sites for longer! They must have to go through rigorous training for 10-15 seconds to do the job. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

[Nanu]

We have a newly built recycling centre which is great.

You book a visit online and get a QR code to show at the gate and the staff could not be more helpful, even if you turn up outside your allocated 20 min slot.

Very rare that you can't book a slot within an hour of wanting one.

 

[Neil CR]

Funny you mention this. We got a new set of draws for the bedroom last week which mentt I had to dispose of the old 1. Now my van is not registered as it’s a pain in the ar#e to deal with so I set about dismantling the old draws back into flat pack and took the circular saw to the large bits so I could get it all in the boot of the Z4 . Challenge accepted and 1 trip to the tip, after checking online which days it was open (closed Tuesday and Wednesday)

 

[N4LLY]

We have a newly built recycling centre which is great.

You book a visit online and get a QR code to show at the gate and the staff could not be more helpful, even if you turn up outside your allocated 20 min slot.

Very rare that you can't book a slot within an hour of wanting one.

Exactly the same here. Works well.

 

[IRD]

Like Andy says these guys who make the decisions seem to have this misconception that by reducing the time the centres open will reduce the amount of rubbish. Yet they are regularly in the media banging on about people needing to recycle rubbish int he correct places. If they aren’t open. That is difficult. What worries me is these are the folk who make all the decisions on how our council tax is spent. No wonder council spending is in such a mess. For a relatively short while I worked for the County Council. After eighteen months and after sending in monthly progress reports the guy who was my boss and to whom I had been sending them informed that he didn’t know I was working for them. So you get the picture.

 

[Mr Tidy]

Regularly, there are items on the local Look North TV News about rubbish being dumped and the cost of clearing it up which runs into many thousands of pounds per annum.
Is it me or would it not make more sense to open the recycling centre more often to encourage people to use them.

I'm sure you are right about limited opening hours, and often restrictive access, causing more fly tipping Ian.

When my Mum was in a residential home in 2020 we had to clear her flat to sell it in May and tips weren't open. Luckily they had some 1,100 litre wheelie bins, but we took away with bags of stuff waiting for charity shops to reopen!

Even when my local tip did reopen I had to book a visit and produce a Council Tax Bill and ID, which they did check.

Thankfully now I've moved I've got access to 1,100 litre Wheelie bins again so haven't needed to go to the tip.

 

[IRD]

Regularly, there are items on the local Look North TV News about rubbish being dumped and the cost of clearing it up which runs into many thousands of pounds per annum.
Is it me or would it not make more sense to open the recycling centre more often to encourage people to use them.

I'm sure you are right about limited opening hours, and often restrictive access, causing more fly tipping Ian.

When my Mum was in a residential home in 2020 we had to clear her flat to sell it in May and tips weren't open. Luckily they had some 1,100 litre wheelie bins, but we took away with bags of stuff waiting for charity shops to reopen!

Even when my local tip did reopen I had to book a visit and produce a Council Tax Bill and ID, which they did check.

Thankfully now I've moved I've got access to 1,100 litre Wheelie bins again so haven't needed to go to the tip.

It makes a good subject to have a rant about though doesn’t it? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

[Mr Tidy]

It makes a good subject to have a rant about though doesn’t it?

Sure does.

 

[Pondrew]

It makes a good subject to have a rant about though doesn’t it?

Can we do pop-up temporary roadworks next and their utter wastage of public money...can we.....please??
Council tips are rank amateurs compared to Highways/utility companies when it comes to lack of efficiency and wasting public money.

 

[IRD]

It makes a good subject to have a rant about though doesn’t it?

Can we do pop-up temporary roadworks next and their utter wastage of public money...can we.....please??
Council tips are rank amateurs compared to Highways/utility companies when it comes to lack of efficiency and wasting public money.

Let’s wait until tomorrow. I’ve had enough ranting for today. What do you think .

 

[ekimj10]

On a similar vein, we in Warwickshire have to pay £45.00 per wheelie bin if we want our green garden waste collected every 2 weeks. Last year was £40.00 per bin. We have 4 green bins but only pay for two licenses being tight.

 

[Ole gits rule]

Our tip was ok just after covid, book a slot then off you, then they stopped the booking anti was just turn up but they limited the number of cars they allowed entry too, great idea but you could drive past the actual skips and see 2 cars in there and around the corner 50 queuing outside - the issue was that no-one at the gate could actually see the bloody skips, took about 3 weeks to get them radios so they could clear the question quicker.

Now the place is open 364 days a yearns need to show ID, just drive, staff are generally pretty decent although you do get the odd jobsworth.

The biggest issue at ours is that business have to £5 to dump stuff so the fly tipping does happen, cost thousands clean up, just allow business entry free twice a week and see if that reduces the fly tipping.

 

[MikeyH]

Our tip in Newton Abbot is open as far as I know 7 days Week but they won’t accept certain things for free i.e. rubble, earth, tyres, plastic baths to name a few. If I want to use my van I need to register and I get 12 visits per year. Luckily it’s registered to me otherwise no go. No business reg vans. Fly tipping is on the increase, this is why. How pays? Us. :headbang: Yes Pondrew, I also remember the good old days of tipping everything at the tip years ago and being able to look for useful stuff that others had got rid of. Most of our tip workers are surly eastern Russians.

 

[IRD]

On a similar vein, we in Warwickshire have to pay £45.00 per wheelie bin if we want our green garden waste collected every 2 weeks. Last year was £40.00 per bin. We have 4 green bins but only pay for two licenses being tight.

We have a similar system here. The collection arrangements for our four different bins are OK. It is the tips where there are accessibility issues and councillors don’t listen to the voters. :headbang:

 

[IRD]

Our tip in Newton Abbot is open as far as I know 7 days Week but they won’t accept certain things for free i.e. rubble, earth, tyres, plastic baths to name a few. If I want to use my van I need to register and I get 12 visits per year. Luckily it’s registered to me otherwise no go. No business reg vans. Fly tipping is on the increase, this is why. How pays? Us. :headbang: Yes Pondrew, I also remember the good old days of tipping everything at the tip years ago and being able to look for useful stuff that others had got rid of. Most of our tip workers are surly eastern Russians.

I think you have hit the nail on the head. If business people could deposit rubbish free I’m sure fly tipping would reduce. What we are finding at the moment is that if you have any building/repair jobs done tradesmen won’t take away waste. We have just had internal doors replaced and had to pay over £200 for a skip to get rid of them.