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Local waste dump charging for DIY waste

chookmom
chookmom Posts: 74 Forumite
in In my home (includes DIY) MoneySaving
Visited our local waste/recycling site in Oxfordshire this morning with some rubble (to be put in rubble container not landfill) and told there is now a charge for DIY waste. You can dump 3 items a month (an item is 1 bag of rubble or soil or a sink?toilet/shower screen or piece of carpet) and after that there is a charge. £5 for a car with rubble in the back.
This DIY waste is not classified as household waste and they are not obliged to take it.
Is this the same in other areas? I wonder how will they police it and if it will just lead to more fly tipping.
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  • zaax
    zaax Posts: 1,914 Forumite
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    It will cost the council a lot more when its fly tipped
    Do you want your money back, and a bit more, search for 'money claim online' - They don't like it up 'em Captain Mainwaring
  • Yorkie1
    Yorkie1 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
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    Our council introduced similar charges recently. Makes you wonder how exactly people will choose to get rid of the waste when they renovate their gardens etc. Grr.
  • motch
    motch Posts: 429 Forumite
    If charges become the norm it'll be worth buying a house with a few acres of land and "doing a deal" with the locals..

    I've noticed my local tip is closed a few days more a week now, cut backs hey.:(
  • ValHaller
    ValHaller Posts: 5,212 Forumite
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    chookmom wrote: »
    I wonder how will they police it and if it will just lead to more fly tipping.
    Yes it does lead to fly tipping
    zaax wrote: »
    It will cost the council a lot more when its fly tipped
    It is usually this extra cost which makes them back down after 18 months of so. I've seen these charges come and go.
    You might as well ask the Wizard of Oz to give you a big number as pay a Credit Referencing Agency for a so-called 'credit-score'
  • Biggles
    Biggles Posts: 8,209 Forumite
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    chookmom wrote: »
    You can dump 3 items a month (an item is 1 bag of rubble or soil or a sink?toilet/shower screen or piece of carpet) and after that there is a charge.
    Three free loads a month doesn't sound too bad (as long as you know before you go...). But - how do they know? Do they make you register and sign in each time? That procedure must cost them a fortune.
  • Yorkie1
    Yorkie1 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
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    ANPR records which vehicles come in at our tip.
  • ValHaller
    ValHaller Posts: 5,212 Forumite
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    Yorkie1 wrote: »
    ANPR records which vehicles come in at our tip.
    So 2 car households can get away with dumping more.
    You might as well ask the Wizard of Oz to give you a big number as pay a Credit Referencing Agency for a so-called 'credit-score'
  • globalds
    globalds Posts: 9,431 Forumite
    Yorkie1 wrote: »
    ANPR records which vehicles come in at our tip.


    Just get a taxi to the dump ....simples :)
  • justjohn
    justjohn Posts: 2,260 Forumite
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    our dump records the reg of vehicles sometimes. unsure what they do with it. local jobs-worth at our dump tried to say we were trade just cause we dumped 3 transits of wood/rubble in a 3 month period. We were doing major renovation work. We complained to head of recycling at council...got an apology back. that was 3 years ago now.
  • patman99
    patman99 Posts: 8,532 Forumite
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    Stick an ad on Gumtree or your local Freegle/Freecycle site. Someone will take it away for nothing.

    Btw, did they say how big the bag could be ?.
    Never Knowingly Understood.

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