Waste Disposal - Wolverhampton

Gingernutty

Today I made an appointment to have the council workmen pick "up to 5 bulky items".

I've paid over £20 for them to call "within 10 working days" and they'll text me the day before they're going to come - appointment slot between 9am and 5pm.

I must leave the items in an area where they are accessible to the workmen.

I explained I work shifts and that I live in an area plagued by antisocial behaviour but no, there were no exceptions.

I must leave splintery, nail studded wood, old drawers and a few other bits in easy reach of feral kiddies if I'm going to be sleeping for a shift.

When I mentioned that there was a broken down sander, I was told no.

No electrical equipment - that counts as white goods and are removed at over £20 per item.

Also, there's nowhere to recycle energy saving lightbulbs now that the local Sainsbury's has shut down. Their new store doesn't have lighbulb or clothes bins.

The council do have recycling facilities at the city dumps/recycling centres but they don't allow pedestrians on site.

On the basis that I'm not hiring a taxi just to get rid of an old sander and a lightbulb, I've thrown them in the bin for tomorrow.

Very eco friendly......:mad:

globalds

I wonder if it was a private company that ran the operation ..They would be more flexible ?

Torry_Quine

It's always been the case here that items are left outside for collection and no text the day before so items are potentially out for several days. If you want a specific collection of items from inside it costs a lot more.

I would take the clothes to a charity shop.

stevemLS

globalds wrote: »

I wonder if it was a private company that ran the operation ..They would be more flexible ?

It might be, but would probably cost three times as much.

globalds

I remember reading somewhere that the easiest way of getting rid of something the bin man would not collect was to stick it in your front garden with a big sign on saying " Do Not Take "

Gingernutty

globalds wrote: »

I wonder if it was a private company that ran the operation ..They would be more flexible ?

There is a private contractor that I called through the council - there was a roomful of stuff to get rid of and the "5 bulky items" service wasn't appropriate - they charged me about £100.

The council picks up the white goods and bulky items.

Torry_Quine wrote: »

It's always been the case here that items are left outside for collection and no text the day before so items are potentially out for several days. If you want a specific collection of items from inside it costs a lot more.

I would take the clothes to a charity shop.

The area I live in has antisocial behaviour issues and people think nothing of dumping complete rubbish on their own doorsteps without arranging any sort of collection.

What's annoying me is that services are so limited, so expensive and resulted in me throwing something away rather than try to recycle it.

There are no bins for lightbulbs anymore and the local dumps don't take pedestrians.

Twonks.

Torry_Quine

Gingernutty wrote: »

The area I live in has antisocial behaviour issues and people think nothing of dumping complete rubbish on their own doorsteps without arranging any sort of collection.

What's annoying me is that services are so limited, so expensive and resulted in me throwing something away rather than try to recycle it.

There are no bins for lightbulbs anymore and the local dumps don't take pedestrians.

Twonks.

My area is the same with white goods and furniture just left blocking pavements. :mad:

I had an image of people taking undesirable people and throwing them in for recycling. :rotfl::rotfl:

Gingernutty

Gingernutty wrote: »

There are no bins for lightbulbs anymore and the local dumps don't take pedestrians.

Twonks.

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I had an image of people taking undesirable people and throwing them in for recycling. :rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl: That's right, yeah. You can't just walk up and throw yourself into a skip, you have to be driven in....:rotfl:

Gingernutty

Gingernutty wrote: »

The area I live in has antisocial behaviour issues and people think nothing of dumping complete rubbish on their own doorsteps without arranging any sort of collection.

Torry_Quine wrote: »

My area is the same with white goods and furniture just left blocking pavements. :mad:

The irritating thing is, the kind of people who tend to do that, are the kind of people who, on benefits, get the job done for free anyway.

The first question I was asked when I rang up was am I on full council tax benefit or receiving any other kind of allowance.....otherwise I'd have to pay. :mad:

Helix

Its £38 around here, I had to get rid of two sofas earlier this year. There was a 2 week wait as they only collect on a certain day every fortnight. So as I didn't want to be antisocial I had to manoeuvre round 2 old sofas as well as the new ones for 2 weeks in my tiny flat whilst I waited for the day the council (well the company they outsource to) to come and collect it.

lulu_92

When we moved house we arranged for the council to pick up an old sofa. We left it outside of our old house (which wasn't empty yet) whilst we moved some stuff to the new house. In between the two houses was a park but obviously had to drive the van the long way around.

Anyway, we came back after 2-3 hours and someone took the sofa to the park and set it on fire. Turns out it was a bunch of people in my class at school.

At least we didn't have to pay for the pick up!