bigrob Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 booked up to go to Stoke Orchard re-cycling centre so I could take my pickup with all the old tv's from the house - also took our old mattress. All I got was - can't dump this - can't dump that and I couldn't get anyone to help with carrying the old crt telivisions up the steps to throw them in the bin! Good job i'm a big strong boy? I asked the bloke if they were all Nazis - He didn't laugh. anyone else had problems with this. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clakk Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Local tip started charging for this that n t,other a while back about 6 people drink tea there ,used to be very helpful til the extra charges started.Now u get to struggle whilst they watch.Council tip run by a private company ,erm sorry im paying 1500 quid a year for what . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Holliday Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 It's frustrating to think that you pay your council tax (of which being able to use the public tip is a very small part) and you get this kind of treatment or level of service. It really annoys me to think that the companies which now run these sites feel that this is acceptable. I can understand H&S to a degree but some seem to use this as carte blanche to do sweet fanny adams. It boils back to what I said in a previous post where civil servants are concerned, some people will genuinely help yet others seem to enjoy putting obstacles in the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 I have seen the local jobsworthy here watch an elderly woman struggle to unload her boot load of rubbish, even when I stepped in to help her he did not take the hint to proffer some assistance. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me matt Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 (edited) Chelmsford City Council are going the same way 🙄 A few years ago they removed the height restriction barriers to allow vans in, they were quite happy to report in local news papers about the amount of fly tipping that had reduced as a result, giving there selves a big public pat on the back. End of last year they brought in a van ban & reinstated the height restriction barriers, followed by fortnightly bin emptyIng 🤔 I'm predicting an 'increase in fly tipping' news paper article real soon.... Edited January 28, 2017 by Me matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Some guy took something out of a skip and put it in the back of his car, a guy working on the tip walked up quietly, took it out of his car and threw it back in the skip, this was all done with no facial expression and not a single word spoken. Me and the Mrs and the chap that took out this thing just stared in amazement and laughed while watching the tip employee just walk off. yet they moan about land fill, some folk haven't got the brains of an embryo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 It's just been on the local news that they had to shut ours for a while. This while the police sorted out a small problem regarding the dumping of a 3 foot rocket launcher that was eventually spotted by the staff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washerboy Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Then they wonder why fly tipping is on the increase. An old couple I know had to wait 3 weeks for the counsel to pick up and old freezer. This was after they said to put it out with their bins as it would be two days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny thomas Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Couldn't take rubble to our local tip they did however have no problem taking all the old copper pipe and brass fittings I had now there's a funny thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 We have a jobsworth at our tip who likes to bark out orders whilst sitting in a deckchair. Fortunately he's too bone idle to get out of it if you ignore him. We took a load of plastic pipe that had brass compression fittings on and he told us we would have to take it apart. Luckily my mrs was there and she said "No. i'm not doing that. You crack on if you want to." He said "Well put in in the landfill then" (without getting out of his deckchair.) I want a job like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sishyplops Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Video them on mobile phones and post on Facebook or something as it sounds like good sport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 It is simple to blame the council for everything but with this government they are cutting the money that they are given it must be a nightmare trying to juggle paying for care of old and disabled people old peoples homes who gets the money do they spend it on recycling if people do not like the way that they are doing it they can always stand for the council and try to get voted in but that would be to much like hard work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royboy Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 When I go to the tip all the workers want to do is either talk between there selfs or help the young blondes !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 (edited) They closed our local tip, the nearest one now has a queue a mile long. Edited January 28, 2017 by Vince Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord O War Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Looks like we have a good setup at Wigan. You drive in and park up next to the area you want rubble, garden waste, card, timber, metal and there are loads of smaller containers for florescent bulbs, books, small appliances etc. The staff are very helpful, it's clean but really stinks in summer as it is a massive indoor facility. Lets see how long before they **** it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me matt Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 It is simple to blame the council for everything but with this government they are cutting the money that they are given it must be a nightmare trying to juggle paying for care of old and disabled people old peoples homes who gets the money do they spend it on recycling if people do not like the way that they are doing it they can always stand for the council and try to get voted in but that would be to much like hard work. My heart bleeds for them..... NOT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Then they wonder why fly tipping is on the increase. An old couple I know had to wait 3 weeks for the counsel to pick up and old freezer. This was after they said to put it out with their bins as it would be two days. They charge you about £60 to come and collect anything now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilksy II Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 I can honestly say there a good set of lads at our local tip, help people with stuff constantly sweeping up big up East Riding council tip! Rest of the Ercc are useless mind! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bemused Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 I need a permit to take stuff in my pickup to the tip (Over Wyre) Only allowed one permit per month and state on it exactly what's being dumped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewh100 Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 my local tip was revamped about two years ago it was all pulled down re tarmaced with all very large skips and steps at the sides the problem was three employees was made redundant, so one of the redundant employees decided to get very drunk and brake in started up the very large peice of plant they use to move the skips about and totally destroyed the whole place was court on cctv. ended getting three years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevorevans Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Took some stuff to the tip about a year ago, guy says "what you got"?, I replied "General household rubbish", "oh we don't take that, all has to be separated". So the local tip no longer takes rubbish and then there's a big council program to remove illegally dumped rubbish from country road/mountain lay-bys. Someone who is too stupid is getting paid too much money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy.plinker Posted January 29, 2017 Report Share Posted January 29, 2017 The recycling/ skip sites up here I go to are great! although years ago there were a few jobsworth xxxxx, but now they help you if your struggling and let you take things within reason,I've even heard of them keeping an eye out for something and keeping it to the side. Beats why there still is some fly tipping happening here,done by trouble makers generally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39TDS Posted January 29, 2017 Report Share Posted January 29, 2017 I think I have been banned three times from our local skips for falling out with them. Not that I take much notice. They must only employ a certain type of wannabe Nazi or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger Posted January 29, 2017 Report Share Posted January 29, 2017 I use a commercial tip in Mitcham. Onto the weighbridge then back the van into the huge building and launch it all out. Some big old dozers to avoid. I usually keep the sinks and taps to one side and unload them last so the lads can have them. Works out way cheaper than paying what the council charge for vans at the local tip. Only down side is the van gets caked in some disgusting grey sludge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southeastpete Posted January 29, 2017 Report Share Posted January 29, 2017 In ashford in Kent they are awful too. When renovating our house my wife was heavily pregnant and I had a broken wrist in a cast, an they never offered to help with any stuff. There's one young lad there who does, but the older blokes are all on a power trip with the minute responsibility they have. Now I have a pickup I have to apply for the privilege of being allowed 12 vouchers per year. If you have any other vehicles in the household your not allowed! I lied about that, as I don't have a truck to put all the dirty rubbing in my wife's boot! What if my second car was a classic Morgan? Also, the system is supposedly to show I'm not dumping commercial waste. So if I'm not commercial, why am I then limited to 13 trips a year? Especially when with a car you can tow in a big trailer with no issues! It's a joke! And your only allowed to dump 90kg of hardcore a trip. So when I ripped up our old concrete path, I had to leave it all in a pile in the garden and take 90kg per month til it was gone! I have never u derstood fly tippers, but I'm beginning to get it now. Still, people should only tip onto council owned land, as they cause these issues in the first place! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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