What can I take to landfill?

bairn7

This seems like the most appropriate thread (sorry if it's not).

I'm selling my flat and I am having pictures taken on Monday so am doing a deep clean over the weekend.

I have lots of random things that I'm not sure I can just take to landfill for the general waste part (I have looked at my council site but it doesn't help).

1. I want to empty my pantry of old food (various jars, boxes, pouches and cartons). Can I just dump containers of expired food?

2. I have numerous old car products (turtlewax, cleaning products).

3. Old medicine (cream) containers.

These are the only things htat give me pause to think about whether I can just blindly ditch them in general waste.

Can anyone advise?

Thanks

bris

My recycle centre (as they call them now) has a bag waste skip. It's just basically a black bin liner filled with anything. It goes onto a processing plant where the contents are emptied onto a large conveyor belt where is all sorted into recyclable and landfill. They also have a landfill skip.


They have a lot of other skips for wood, metal, garden waste etc so everything in there is in a way all recycled with the landfill separated.


See if your local tip is the same, but I think it will be as they all more or less are now. The people there will tell you what skips to use.

sevenhills

bairn7 wrote: »

1. I want to empty my pantry of old food (various jars, boxes, pouches and cartons). Can I just dump containers of expired food?

2. I have numerous old car products (turtlewax, cleaning products).

3. Old medicine (cream) containers.
Thanks

In my area items from the bins go to an incinerator. I prefer to recycle what ever I can.
So I would empty the food containers and maybe put the contents in the compost bin, some sites have large metal drums to empty old oil into.
So I would prefer that everything went into the correct bin, but people can just dump anything into their black non-recycle bin.

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Bag it or box it and take it all.

unforeseen

On the medicine side then if they are prescription items you should return them to a pharmacy to enable them to be disposed of safely.

scottishblondie

You probably could take all this to the dump and dispose of it wholesale, but it sounds like you want to be a bit more responsible.

bairn7 wrote: »

1. I want to empty my pantry of old food (various jars, boxes, pouches and cartons). Can I just dump containers of expired food?

Empty the all the food into your food waste, recycle the tins etc. and put the rest in your general waste bin.

bairn7 wrote: »

2. I have numerous old car products (turtlewax, cleaning products).

Take those to the dump, they should have an area for chemical products.

bairn7 wrote: »

3. Old medicine (cream) containers.

Take these to a pharmacy, they can dispose of medication so that it doesn't cause any contamination.