No wonder people fly tip!

angryparcel

DoaM wrote: »

If the mate was using the tin/bag for a purpose, and wasn't trying to discard them, how was that even waste?

because it was Northumberland County Council. If you stand long enough they would class you as waste and charge you

NBLondon

teddysmum wrote: »

Our council charges private owners or renters but council tenants have free collection; unfair as not all council tenants are poor and some are better off than private renters.

Don't tell anybody... but I quietly drag things across the road to the council flats where they have a semi-official collection point. I was advised to do this by a council employee :-) Given the amount of dead TVs, broken furniture etc. that comes out of those flats - they won't notice the occasional extra box.
We used to have a neat garden waste system whereby you bought the official bags; booked a pickup on the website and put them out on the booked day. £1 a bag. Which was great if you have a small garden and only generate one or two bags a month. It's recently been changed to £60 a year for a brown wheelie bin. I don't have room for a third bin!

Uxb

The district councils are responsible for waste removal and fly tipping clearup costs.
The county councils are usualyl responsible for running the waste recyling centres.

Therefore there is no incentive on the county to make it easier or cheaper to dump stuff in the tip as they are not paying the cost of the resulting fly tipping - which the district councils have to fork out for.


The rise in charges for domestic DIY rubble waste etc is due to tradesmen now leaving their trade waste for the householder to take to the tip for free as 'DIY work'.
So Trade waste is being introduced into the domestic waste stream - and costing the councils money. Money which is saved by the tradesman/householder. So councils are just putting it back on the householder....

System

People that have a new bed, fridge/freezer, washing machine and others delivered. These companies offer to pick up the old one for a price lower than the council charge. Why do some not bother take up the offer that the electrical showroom, bed shop have? My friend who lives in a council where bulky waste is £27 for first item and £6.50 for subsequent items. She had a new washing machine delivered as old one broke. The shop charge £15 for delivery and installation or £22 for delivery, installation and disposal of old washer. The family opposite had a washer delivered by the same shop but didn't have the old one taken away. It was left on top of their driveway for a week and they were also £20 out of pocket.

Huskydays

neilmcl wrote: »

Is that the initial cost or the regular annual renewal. You usually have to pay a charge for the bin to start off then the annual charge for the service.

Nope, 55 per bin per year is the regular annual cost. I should be grateful there's no initial set up fee as well I suppose.