Bulk Collections - Useful Information

[MagnetsAndHangers]

I agree, they should provide a free wagon at least once a month, it's not like people pay council tax for nothing and part of that is supposed to be for recycling and collection. Just extra money in their pocket from what I can tell and the bulk collections go into their council dump trucks anyway.

Yup - extra money in their pockets - helps pay everyones benefits.

[Pink_Panther]

I just put unwanted items by the bin.
They invariably get 'stolen' during the night.

It's hilarious watching some of them as they sidle past, look up and down the street then grab whatever and run like hell.

A young lass 'stole' a coffee table with a glass top I threw out. Her mate stood across the road keeping watch
. I laughed my socks off when she ran away with it. The leg fell off!

Nobody has ever just knocked on the door and asked for whatever I'm discarding.

It's a mad world.

[gazlannathai]

Freecycle or Freegle it. Its surprising what people will take away.

Takes notes ......


...... will be in pikey mode the first month or two I'm back (hint-nudge to anyone in the mid / east Berkshire vicinity)

[raindropsies]

Must be in the minority, but Nottingham city council don't charge for collecting bulk waste, they used to charge £15 for fridges & other white goods but now it's all free

[billsstamps]

Fly tipping hotspots

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[buttons-and-bows]

well conwy is marked but then It would be cause they charge

[gazlannathai]

Thinks someone must have fly-tipped Scotland as it's missing from the map - LOL

[astral276]

well conwy is marked but then It would be cause they charge

It would be interesting to discover if there is a correlation between fly tipping intensity and what the council charges to remove non-household waste.

As said earlier, they still end up having to clean up the fly tips so they may as well just collect it for free in the first place.

I do appreciate that some people will still fly tip regardless of how easy and free it is to dispose of their stuff properly.

[bykimbo]

It would be interesting to discover if there is a correlation between fly tipping intensity and what the council charges to remove non-household waste.

As said earlier, they still end up having to clean up the fly tips so they may as well just collect it for free in the first place.

I do appreciate that some people will still fly tip regardless of how easy and free it is to dispose of their stuff properly.

I think councils probably concentrate their *free* provisions on services more likely to be used by a majority of tax-payers. These sort of large-scale collections are probably rarer. Plus, people value things by how much it costs them, so by charging they probably reduce frivolous and inefficient collections - the sort of people who'd ring up and demand a collection for a kettle one day, and the plug the next.

[Rednosty]

I just put unwanted items by the bin.
They invariably get 'stolen' during the night.

It's hilarious watching some of them as they sidle past, look up and down the street then grab whatever and run like hell.

A young lass 'stole' a coffee table with a glass top I threw out. Her mate stood across the road keeping watch
. I laughed my socks off when she ran away with it. The leg fell off!

Nobody has ever just knocked on the door and asked for whatever I'm discarding.

It's a mad world.

This is what I do 9 times out of 10 stuff goes. Funniest and perhaps saddest was an Old woman picked up an old saucepan (Burnt to cinder and broken handle and of she went. Probably living in her garden now!