f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

I live a **** area with a council that is consistently rated in the bottom 5 in the country! The area has been heading downhill for years, the council tax has been heading upwards for years.

Well this morning I went to the tip with a car load of household crap and was told to enjoy my last few days of 'free' tipping. As of 1st June our beloved council are apparently charging £35 per car or £3.50 a bag (whichever is 'cheapest') for the privilege of tipping rubbish into a tip we have already been charged for!

Trouble is I was intending to make a lot more journeys in the next few months so now I will just have to save it all up and leave it dumped on the motorway just before I leave the country!

F**k them

Tidgy

yeah, thast all thats gonna happen. just make sure any paperwork doesnt have your address and name on it and your fine

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

And the council will blame it on government cuts, despite this costing more to do.

It makes no economic sense! It will undoubtedly lead to an increase in fly-tipping, which will cost more to clean up than this will raise in all likelihood (never mind being an eyesore).

(Does someone on the council have a directorship on a fly-tip cleaning business by any chance? )

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

I have heard of cow-tipping but you must have to be really, really fast to tip a fly

dpb

They only open ours 3 days a week now , but no charging for domestic stuff yet

dpb

Anyway tell us what you were tipping F1 ...

Was it half a refurbished house per chance ?

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

What gets me is that they MAKE MONEY recycling stuff.

In France, our local tip has a ten foot fence and it's electrified at 25kV.
Touch it and not only will it knock you flat, but it sets off the alarm and sounds in the pagers of both guardians and summons the gendarmes.

So someone wants the tipped stuff........

DYK

Don't make sense does it,but not much makes sense in this country anymore.So another one bites the dust eh,things go accordingly another three years and I'll be out of here permantly also.

Raptorman

iTrader: (1)

Being charged to tip is a joke, but the bigger joke
is the amount of usable/recyclable stuff that is dumped
at my local tip and you are not allowed to take it.

Councils like to drone on about recycling but won't give
you a chance to do it.

markjmd

iTrader: (11)

Shocking stuff. This would never happen in London though, obviously.

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

You could just dump it on the streets there and it wouldn't look any different! I may live in a **** area, but it's all relative. Compared to London and the utter bell ends that inhabit it it's paradise. HTH

lordharding

iTrader: (1)

That's absolutly crazy

I know how my local county council is 3 million in the soup and the local city council has savage cuts ahead but to charge for tipping is crazy
Flying tipping will cost 10 times more

Who is the council ?
Pm me if you don't want scoobynet masses to know which dodgy area you live in

It's about time that local parish and town councils have more power as they can manage smaller units far more efficient

I can afford Raindeer and camels for Xmas and atract 2000 people to the switching on of my lights ,give everyone a good time and still balance the books after ten years

Local knowledge and common sense is what it's all about nothing big councils that out of touch with the people they represent

But trying to get into city council is the hard part with only one on 15 wards changing hands and I got hammered by the Cameron followers

markjmd

iTrader: (11)

The battle for creds among those bottom 5 places is clearly fiercer than any of us might have expected. Fascinating.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Simple: they are making money from it, it's a business. Our local tip, both here and in France is run by a company, SITA I think.

VERY little goes to landfill there, trust me, plus it doesn't cost to get rid of rubble, which it does here.

However, we DO pay a nice €160 a year to have our bins emptied, ON TOP of the council tax, which is hefty now, for which WE get one street light, not even drainage

And what's in our bin, when I've separated out anything I can recycle and been to the tip with it, (yep, no recycling collections either)?
Virtually nowt.

If I can't recycle it, the hens or the dog eats it, what's left goes in the bin, so plastic bags mainly.

dunx

iTrader: (3)

We all make choices in life, how long does it take you to earn £3.50 or even £35 ?

dunx

P.S. It's "Gradely Opp North" !

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

What has that got to do with anything?

ditchmyster

iTrader: (7)

Strange thing is these tips are like little gold mines when run properly, there's not much that goes to waste, 95% of what comes through the gates has value to someone somewhere.

When these sites used to be put out for tender 20 odd years back you could get them for around £5k pa, I knew a bloke that had two of them and would pull £10k a week between the pair of them.

One mans muck really is another mans money.