An amusing incident....

Nilrem

Gravitytolls, that sounds a bit harsh the restrictions at our tip are a bit tight (limits on things like how much bathroom rubbish, or kitchen worktop you can take, and a requirement for a permit for tyres and fridges etc), but general waste is not a problem, it's just the sort of waste that is harder to handle/more likely to be from a business.
For example we can drop off as much normal wood waste as we want, but not more than (from memory) 2 meters of kitchen worktop at a time.

TheSaint_2

Hey Nilrem - I totally admit I was "breaking the rules" so to speak by going in the wrong way. I guess you had to be there, there was zero danger. There were a couple of customers in the side I entered, I guess people with a lot to dump who had still been there after they stopped the traffic.
But anyway, it really could have been done more efficiently. You would just have had to have seen it like I to understand how easily it could have been improved. It certainly wasn't H&S or they would not have allowed any customers to still be where I was when it happened.

Good luck banning me for endangering safety though, the exit is wide enough for 4 cars next to each other. And as no one is on the entrance checking number plates I don't see how they could enforce it?

sillygoose

My tip (tip geddit?) is to take everything stuffed in black bin bags tied up with cable ties. When the waste reassignment executive (tip man) pops up to interrogate you, tell them you are clearing your dead aunties house, the post mortem still hasn't confirmed what she died of but it looks like some kind of virus and they are also testing all the dead animals found there too. They soon leave you alone....

giraffe69

Is it possible that the dump might be open for some number of hours per day and such tidying up and swapping around be done during "health and safety hour" Of course not this would be convenient for those who both use and pay for the dump.
I'm expecting to go to Tesco's to be told to wait outside until they have finished cleaning the floor and stacking the shelves!

FATBALLZ

I think they have some breeding centre where the employees for these places come from, at our local one this inbred looking bloke in a yellow jacket is always there by the entrance scoffing an apple with his mouth open and comes up to your car and says 'mish mush mish' and then you just go and do whatever.

s_b

a few years back i had some bits and bats to dispose of so the wife and i (royal wave) went to the tipsy she in her car me in a van
me stopped at gate tha cant come in lad thats trade waste,me no it isnt its me old furniture,they wouldnt let me in so i said im parking over the road and putting my rubbish in the wifes car then and coming back,they said oooh you cant do that its illegal
we went over the road swapped loads i abandoned my van they let us in

ive never tipped a binman since and i always used to
they can all get lost

RuthnJasper

I'm as annoyed as everyone about the daft regulations. But I probably wouldn't feel too good about myself for making a bloke's sh*t day in a sh*t place, doing sh*t work, even sh*tter than it already is.

The fines meted out to councils for disposing of the wrong type of waste in the various types of skips are MASSIVE, plus they risk losing their tipping licence for regular breaches - so the rules are not completely pointless.

Having said that, I work for a council and my colleagues cannot take their waste (from council sites) to the council tip in their council-logo'd work vehicle "because it's trade waste"... :wall:

Gingernutty

Back in 2009, I had to get rid of a very old and cumbersome television and a VHS video player.

The local council charge £10 per electrical item if you make an appointment to get them collected (and lose a days annual leave as well) but taking something to the dump is free.

I can't drive.

I had the genius idea of putting the television onto a luggage trolley and taking it to the bus stop only to find that the bus drivers wouldn't let me on, as the television was too big.

I had to walk the three miles to the tip dragging the television behind me. It was murder. I was being overtaken by pensioners.

I knew I had reached the tip because of the huge queue of cars leading down the hill all waiting to get in. :cool:

As I went in through the pedestrian entrance, wobbling past the A boards telling the car queue which skip to go to for their particular waste, I was met by a big fella in fluorescent yellow work wear waving his hands at me. :huh:

As we got close to each other, I heard him telling me to get back in my car and not to queue jump. :huh:

I explained that I hadn't got a car, that I come through the pedestrian entrance because I was a pedestrian and I needed directions to the television dump. :mad:

He pointed to a shipping container in one corner of the site and took the video and threw it, reusable carrier bag and all into the skip for small electrical items.

As he saw me struggling further up the slope, he kept a close eye on me. He carried on watching me as I wrestled the television off the trolley and into the container and carried on watching me as I made my way round to the site exit.

I'm surprised he didn't follow me to the bus stop just to check.

Some time last year, I had reason to go to the dump again, this time on a week day.

It was just as well there was next to no one on site, as the pedestrian access has been closed. No foot traffic allowed.

So I sneaked in unnoticed. :cool:

Not everyone has a car. What are we supposed to do? Hire a taxi? :wall:

yangptangkipperbang

Recycling has long since taken on a life of its own - you MUST obey the staff/notices..........:rotfl::rotfl:

At my local mini recycling centre you are ordered to place plastic bottle and their caps into separate containers. At the main recycling centre you are told to "remove the cap, flatten the bottle and replace the cap".

PS: Guess where the stuff from the mini recycling centre gets taken ............ 3 guesses !

Nilrem

Thesaint, IIRC they take the numbers of the car, but it's rare unless you make a real problem:)

S B, most tidy tips these days have restrictions on vans, pickups, and trailers (with more than 2 wheels), you can blame the tradesmen who try to use residential waste sites to dispose of commercial waste* (iirc commercial waste is charged for). I think our local tip allows a van if you've applied in advance and supplied it's registration number, but only a set number of times a year due to the commercial waste issue

I've actually expected to be questioned several times at our local tip, but never have been despite at times making 2-3 trips in a day.
I suspect it's because they can see when we've done that it's obviously the result of clearing out a shed/garage or doing diy work (not a lot of any one thing), and that we're fairly regular with sacks of greenery in the summer.


*One of my neighbours was such a "tradesman", iirc he got himself, his wife, and son banned from the tip for trying to dump paint pots etc by the car load on a regular basis (given the quality of his work around his house, and how slapdash he was, I use the term tradesman loosely, I wouldn't have paid him to do anything).