To wish they'd reopen the recycling centers?

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They closed the tips at the start of lockdown and fly tipping and bonfires have gone up massively in our area as a result.

I appreciate that they constitute a non essential journey to use them, but I feel they're the lesser evil!

AIBU?

YABU - they should remain closed
YANBU - yes they should reopen

There is no way as a large family that all our rubbish fits in the bins. We have so much, plus like many others are decluttering and broken things can't go to charity.

@Greenpop21 as I said originally.

Ours was marked out from the get go of social distancing with 3 workers on hand to keep people right and let the traffic flow.

Unfortunately that isn't enough. People were dumping stuff straight out of their cars, threatening staff because "they were in a hurry" and giving them verbal abuse for not doing as they were told

Then you've got the people who can't be arsed to sort their recycling which then has to be sorted by hand by workers who aren't being given PPE. Would you want to do that?

MidnightBlue28 I'm not talking about for my personal use. We're fortunate enough to have a very large garage and cellar we can store stuff in. It's for the people fly tipping that would normally take stuff to the tip.

I suspect that the rise in fly tipping is not an increase in individuals doing it but an increase in people using man and van waste collection services and not checking they are licenced.

BiteyShark we have a tatman, or we pay a fee for collection by the council or they go in the cellar of mystery

Our council does collect electrical items but only small stuff like kettles but it all helps, saves taking it to the recycling- when it opens

It's a bit of a catch 22 isn't it. If they remain closed for a long period of time everyone will want to do a tip run when they open which will mean long queues and possibly more issues with social distancing.

I am fortunate that I can just throw stuff into a pile at home but it is getting bigger and bigger and I will have to make a few car journeys at this rate when they open again.

I am refusing to weed the garden due to the suspension of garden waste collection well that is what I am telling myself

My green bin is getting dangerously full. Plus it has been so long, I am quite sure that the bottom started composting and I will get bollocking sticker that I put soil in there or smth🙄

My patio and spare bedroom are currently piled up with things waiting to go to the tip.

Am trying to wait for reopening but our old kitchen was on our patio and is slowing going in our black bin - at this rate even the sink will have gone by the end of lockdown.

We used to recycle everything and are feeling v guilty. When the recycling centre opens the queues will be enormous.

I am keeping an eye on allotments hoping they will get skip in and I could sneak some rubbish in there🙈

Our Council are reopening the tip.The increase in fly tipping has concentrated their minds.So many things have not been thought through properly in this lockdown.

all retailers offer a take-back solution so they'll pick up your old appliance when they deliver your new one. It's costs about £30 (AO). We had to do this two weeks ago.

If you buy one from non-retail sources then you just have to hang on to it until the sites re-open.

£30 is a lot of money for many people, but as you've just said yourself, people who can only afford to buy used from somebody locally on eBay or FB don't have that option and have to magically find a storage space anyway. I'd imagine that, the less well-off folk are, the more likely they are not to have a yard/shed/garden to store the old one indefinitely.

Sorry, but it's still 'I''m all right, Jack'.

They should definitely reopen.

My shed is full of black bags, I've been spring cleaning and decluttering, it's what you do when you're stuck in the house 24/7, surely most people who usually struggle for time are getting on top of jobs around the house? My local tip could operate safely the way it's set out, the queue to get in will be huge when it reopens.

I suspect that the rise in fly tipping is not an increase in individuals doing it but an increase in people using man and van waste collection services and not checking they are licenced.

I agree with this. A lot of people are just so desperate to get rid of the stuff as there are no alternatives. If you've never had to use a person with a van before, then you may not know what to check for.

Yep, I have instructed DH that we must make sure that the black bin is full each time we put it out, so on bin day we check if any tip stuff can fit in it for example wood trimmings went in last week

Where I live, you have to pay for a garden waste bin service each year, or take garden waste to the recycling centre. The recycling centre is now closed, and the council is not allowing any new garden waste bin or service orders.

So what are people (who don't have the service) to do with their garden waste? Burn it, apparently. So many bonfires recently.

We pay for our garden waste bin and I would expect a refund if they stopped collecting it.

Yes they definitely need to open. Lots of fly tipping happening. They missed a bin collection last week which will make it 4 weeks before collected. I have 4 bin bags to be recycled.

we have a tatman, or we pay a fee for collection by the council

Ah yes I remember the tatman when I was young but never seen one where I now live and annoyingly the council doesn't collect large goods here even for a fee.

I won't complain too much though as in normal times the council is very good in general for waste collection.

what do you do with things like electrical items that are broken? You can't put them in a bin so the only way it to take them to a tip

Obviously I’m not saying it never happens but I can only think of one hairdryer in years and years that was electrical and broke. Nothing else.

All other tip waste I’ve ever made is building works and garden waste.

You're asking for a whole group of people to risk getting sick - and their households, just so rubbish can be dumped. It's only been 4 weeks. It's non essential. YABU

Well I have steadily increasing pile of guinea pig hutch contents that I usually take to the dump and won’t fit in my normal bins. Hope the dump opens soon. And nearly everything has to go in general waste, how else can you get rid of it? Our green collection has also stopped. The drive is nearly full of grass and other cuttings, we have a massive garden.

We’re in the same boat, the tips are closed, they aren’t collecting recycling/garden waste or nappies and fly tippings increased like map.. infact you can see the guy at the end of the road walk 3/4 times a day into the woods with a wheelbarrow (fortunately he’s digging up his garden so it’s soil n rubble not tellys and couches).

We’re still fixing up the house, inside and out. So we’ve hired a skip and are now bloody praying that some fucker doesn’t dump their crap in it.. please don’t do it to other people, we got the cheapest one that’ll suit and it’s £255 for a week, they also won’t lift it if it’s got anything “unsuitable” in it too so we could end up with someone else’s crap permanently..

If anything appears and I know where it’s from I will walk it back to its home.

I don't see why most bigger tips couldn't allow one or two cars in at a time and then lock the gates behind them. Most of them will already have CCTV.

Big, clear posters stating the following conditions of use:

Wait your turn, drive in, dump your rubbish in the appropriate skips, if necessary, speak to the tip staff at a distance and treat them like the respectable human beings that they are and then be let out again - all good.

Dump your rubbish anywhere and/or be abusive to the tip men - be invited to swiftly revisit your tipping techniques and/or apologise to the staff; if you don't, the staff will lock themselves in their hut for their safety, train a camera directly on you for evidence and the gates will be locked with you inside and the police will be called (also, after any arrests and charges, you will also be banned from using all council tips for the rest of the year).

Yes, there would be long queues (although this would even out with tips properly open again and many people able to go throughout the whole day and during the week), but we're used to this at supermarkets right now. An hour or so's wait to dump your stuff is far preferable to not being able to dump it at all.

It's so enormously entitled to think the tips and recycling centres should stay open just because you've done a big declutter in your house or garden.

Regular waste collections ... yes they are pretty essential. Everything else ... absolutely not!