Dispose of rubble from knocking down wall

Davesnave

Furts wrote: »

One can make light of matters, and on the first reading it does seem ridiculous. However, if you were buying the recycled aggregate for hardcore, and more importantly concrete, the last thing you want is plaster.

Picture a twenty load tipped at your home, you have condemned it, and some unfortunate at the recycling centre is then receiving a roasting for turning a blind eye to plaster contamination. Who then disposes of the twenty tons, and how?

OK then, let's not make light of it, but address the question of what happens to rubble which has an element of plaster in it.

The average person can separate-out plasterboard easily enough, but removing plaster from blocks is well-nigh impossible. Then, of course, there's the possibility that the rubble itself may be part aerated blocks, which are very different from the concrete variety.

The more rules, regulations and charges councils bring in, the more stuff is likely dumped illegally, not just in quiet, out of the way places in the countryside, but by individuals with rough land, who make a small income from this.

A skip is close to £300 where I live, but I know of people who will shift 6 cubic yards for under £50 if you ask them nicely. It's not quite a free for all, but to imagine waste is being 'controlled' because the council is meeting its recycling targets, is folly.