Is it an offence (to put rubbish in someone elses bin?)

Davesnave

Franz_Ferdinand wrote: »

Oh, you've got one of those councils too. Luckily being close to the county boundary the next council as of yet don't charge.

Seriously, as I've been engaged in building work for the past 2.5 years, it would have paid me to fill my van with waste products here in Devon, and then drive them to my daughter's local tip in Birmingham, (free) rather than go to the local facility.

The minimum load as 'trade' is £100. Although I'm not trade the van is deemed to be.

Franz_Ferdinand

Davesnave wrote: »

Seriously, as I've been engaged in building work for the past 2.5 years, it would have paid me to fill my van with waste products here in Devon, and then drive them to my daughter's local tip in Birmingham, (free) rather than go to the local facility.

The minimum load as 'trade' is £100. Although I'm not trade the van is deemed to be.

Well Birmingham tips have rather long queues during the summer as they charge to remove garden waste.

phil24_7

Davesnave wrote: »

Seriously, as I've been engaged in building work for the past 2.5 years, it would have paid me to fill my van with waste products here in Devon, and then drive them to my daughter's local tip in Birmingham, (free) rather than go to the local facility.

The minimum load as 'trade' is £100. Although I'm not trade the van is deemed to be.

We are lucky where I live in Devon that we can register our vans (company vans too) at the tip (with copious amounts of I.D. etc) and get 6 tips. Once these are used up you can register again. We have 2 vans registered but in the 4 or 5 years we have had them, we have been maybe 3 times. When I get renovation waste it is rarely enough to warrant a whole van trip to the tip so I just gradually loose it in my regular bin!

Davesnave

phil24_7 wrote: »

We are lucky where I live in Devon that we can register our vans (company vans too) at the tip (with copious amounts of I.D. etc) and get 6 tips. Once these are used up you can register again. We have 2 vans registered but in the 4 or 5 years we have had them, we have been maybe 3 times. When I get renovation waste it is rarely enough to warrant a whole van trip to the tip so I just gradually loose it in my regular bin!

I'm not aware of that facility here, although where I used to live I had my van registered and had ten 'free' trips per year, of which I used about half. It was often mainly about keeping the car clean, rather than volume.

cyclonebri1

Do you guys have to show identification? I'm on the border of 2 authorities 1 is no questions asked and no issue with vans, the other states local County ID is needed and no trade waste.

cyclonebri1

glasgowdan wrote: »

Aren't you just a saint... how's life in shangri-la? How many people of what ages live in your household?

People have different lives, some may be doing work on their houses, get rid of stuff as kids grow out of them, have materials left over after a day's work, and a thousand other things (that includes buying heavily packaged things all the time and being lazy with recycling of course).

I have to agree with this, NO food waste goes into our black (landfill) bin, it's either down the gargbage insinkerator or if vedge in the green (garden waste) bin and yet mine is brimming every week.

It's largely non recyclable packaging, bit of left over diy and hobbies stuff etc and plastic toys from 1/2 grandkids who seem to leave them here when they've tired of them. Recycle bin (red) won't take large plastic items.
Saving grace is that when they were handing out these bins, we have a double entrance to the road, they left an extra bin. This is kept clean and all large plastic etc kept in there until full. I then put a bungee round it at empty it at the skips. They are quite happy to lift it over and empty it for you when they realise what it is, and that you want the bin back, :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

stator

The bins belong to the council, are on council land and going to be collected by a council waste lorry.
I'm sure some local busy body plod would try to find an offence but I'm not sure what the offense would be.

Gloomendoom

Davesnave wrote: »

The minimum load as 'trade' is £100. Although I'm not trade the van is deemed to be.

I had the same issue a while ago when I used my Land Rover to take household stuff to the local tip.

The management seems to have changed though and now I have no problems.

natalie_l_blundell

Unless your putting something like a sofa, I wouldn't mind personally...as long as it is collection day and it's on the kerb.


I think some people are just miserable sometimes maybe? It's not a law is it?

Gloomendoom

Zola. wrote: »

Its pretty rude... why not just drive the excess down to the local dump and get rid.

For some people the local dump isn't really very local.

On the rare occasion I have had too much rubbish to fit in the bin, I have used a neighbour's bin. But only after asking first.