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I seem to be accumulating more waste from packaging, offcuts, glass, board etc than I can manage so need to find a way of dealing with it. Can anyone recommed a company that will provide and collect/empty a wheelie bin on a weekly basis?
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I recycle all my cardboard (mountboard and packaging) to the local scouts who collect it. Since doing so I have cut my waste collection from once a week to once every two weeks and to be honest I could probably cut it to once a month if they allowed me.
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I would think any trade waste company near you would be OK, just don't use BIFFA Waste just a load of scumbags just paying £290.00 to get out of my contract early as they could not show a lot of the time to empty my bins, but reckon they had, until I proved them wrong as their lorry had broken down, ask them to remove bins by 30th March, they said they could not, I emailed them every day until the 9th April and got replies. Now they have sent a invoice for rental from the 1st April to 10th April the little Sh*ts :head: :head: :head: :evil: :evil: :devil: :devil: :devil:
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I recycle what I can but space is the issue. I think I'm outgrowing the double garage.....
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Are the Scouts licensed waste carriers? If not, be careful...
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Its true about the waste transport

We recycled board and bits of perspex etc to local schools until a man from the council turned up threatening prosecution for us and them for illegal transportation of trade waste.

got around it by issuing an invoice for £1.00, then it was selling so no problem
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You can get a licence from your local council and it doesn't cost anything.
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It varies from council to council.

In York you have to pay for all trade refuse, even at the recycling centre.

I get a wheelie bin collected every week, I fill it with glass, cardboard, wood and general waste, it costs £200 per year

I would call your council and check the options in your area

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I called my local council, sent them an email as requested and applied online etc etc. Zip, nothing heard, nowt. No wonder there is fly tipping problem around here.
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I now manage to recycle or reuse everything.
My mountboard offcuts go to local nursery / youth groups for kids to draw on, or local crafters to use to turn into something pretty.
My moulding shavings go into my garden between the flowers.
My moulding offcuts go into my woodburning stove when the weather gets cold.
My glass offcuts go to a local glass artist.
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We used to give our mountboard off cuts to the local junior school then to the local Art College.
That stopped when we got warned by the H & S people.
Bevels on the mountboard cut little fingers.

We could continue to supply said people ONLY if we made all the edges (internal and external) 90 degrees.

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Ours go to a children's hospital where a nice lady trims off the bevels, some weeks she takes over 1000 fall out's, :shock:
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I gave a whole pile of mountboard centres to my son's school the art teacher was very great full she gave me a box of chocolates and a bottle of wine. I am now collecting mountboard for them a the schools was most appreciative.

With regards to the licence I mentioned earlier it was a licence in order to carry trade waste in your vehicle not yo dispose of it. That costs me over £50 a month to have a commercial company to remove it.
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Merlin wrote:We could continue to supply said people ONLY if we made all the edges (internal and external) 90 degrees.
Well that gives you two chances of a paper cut, one each side!
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I do get random play groups and whatnot taking it, I tell them to run the edge of a pen down the bevel before giving it to the kids.
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Unfortunalty all mine goes in the massive bin shared by 4 businesses, and provided by my landlord, cost us £3each a week. Gets emptied every week.
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When is rubbish not rubbish? When it's miscellaneous surplus stock.

If you have a friend/neighbour/relation who never fills their landfill wheelie bin you can sell them all your rubbish for a peppercorn price - make out an invoice an add VAT if applicable. Say 10p + 2p vat. :P The stuff then becomes their property and they can do what they like with it. And they'll get a nice pressie come Michaelmas. :D

Of course methinks this would not bode well with the powers that be, but as far as I can see it's all kosher from a legal standpoint. Who's to say what is waste and what isn't? It's your stuff and you are free to sell it. Do you question customers about what they do with the goods you sell them?

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I use a local man with a van, he takes all my paper & card free of charge, he also takes my glass but only charges 75p a box. :clap:
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We have used Sita for the last eighteen months but will be on the lookout for a new contractor as they have been far too unreliable not turning up some weeks
and we get the same excuse from their depot telephonist "sorry, running behind, might call tomorrow".

That's no good to us when space for rubbish is at a minimum we need someone to come when they say they are coming.
Bank holidays puts them a day behind and last week they failed to turn up again so that was the final straw as we have at the moment empty boxes from
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Reading Prosperos post makes me think that as a sole trader, I can sell my wife the waste, sorry, old stock, for a small fee and she can dispose of it legally in the household bins. Hummmm......
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