Unbelievable

greenbee

Valli wrote: »

Sounds like ours but they DO recycle Tetrapaks

re the mattresses though - ooh bedbugs (and I don't mean dustmites) apparently they are getting more common!

Thanks Valli :eek: I feel ill now And the worst thing is that they live in cracks in furniture & buildings. So make sure you clean your bedframe as well as the mattress!

froddington

Our local tip has a 'shed' where they put things (furniture, etc.) that are in decent condition and sell them. The guys there check your stuff before you put it in the skips.

kazwookie

My local tip, has 3 large metal storage containers, and all usable items are put in there, they also 'sell' some of the items.

I needed a new neff dishwasher cultery basket, OH happened to be dumping some rubbish at the tip, and spoted on in the plastic skip, offered the bloke £1 for it, bloke said take it mate!!

Neff want £45 for a new one result!!

GPedro

SomeBozo wrote: »

No offence, but I can almost see the alternative to this post :

I went to the tip and managed to salvage a matress for my kids. This morning at 3am I hear screaming only to find a spring had come through the mattress.

Surely the tip can't do this? How do I claim compensation? Is this legal? My child could have been killed. How dare they do this? What are my rights? Where do I stand?

As I said, no offence to the OP.

Bozo

Indeed.. I'm all for a bit of recycling, but re-using someone else's mattress for your kids? That's taking it a bit far in my opinion.

McKneff

what we all need to do now is form an ordeley queue outside the tip to see what people are throwing away and intercept it before it gets inside.
Incidentally, to the OP why didnt you freecycle your wardrobe or give it to a charity shop, no offence intended, just curios

Finella_2

When we lived in Edinburgh, we used to use the City of Edinburgh council amenity site (AKA "the tip"!) at Seafield. If we were handing anything in that was in good nick, we used to tell them and they put it aside to sell. I encouraged them because the boys were so helpful with stuff that was too heavy for me and frankly their wages were rubbish!

However, I was also aware that as soon as a car entered the compound anything that was intended for the tip had to be tipped. I saw some folks approaching others asking for the items that they were about to tip and the council workers went mad at them! Apparently health and safety at work rules and regs!

So the moral of the story is to stand outside the council premises and ask the tippers what they are going to tip before they get inside the gates!!!!!

Valli

Hiya Annie!

when my great aunt died we could NOT give her furniture away...
'too old fashioned'
my mum offered some more modern stuff to social services for emergency cases and was told that people expect NEW stuff :eek:(paid for by the taxpayer, I assume)

They'll not be MSE-ers then :rotfl:

I have the wardrobe (wartime or just after by the look of it) - one of those little 'mens' wardrobes - shelves all down one side and it makes a perfect handbag store!

McKneff

Hiya Valli, I Know just what you mean about the furniture. Its even down to tellys now, i tried to give away a 28inch flat screen when we bought an LCD
I did eventually get rid of it but Gawd it was hard work.
I like the sound of your handbag wardrobe. And isnt it great that something from then is still useful. I remember in the fifties my dad chopping furniture up fof the fire which maybe these days would be worth a fortune but then after what you say about your aunts stuff maybe not.