To be a bit protective over my skip

[Ragingoverlife]

Basically

I've just shouted at a man looking to take yet alone more stuff out of my skip. Which I've been trying for weeks to fill up.

Had the skip around 4 weeks it's going today half full because I can't cope with people taking stuff out of it or putting more stuff in it.

Random neighbours going out late at night putting their crap in it.

I've had people put dog poo in it 4 nights in a row until I put a note on then magically watched a couple remove it.

I've had workmen employed by the local council to do work outside my house place their waste in it. Which has now made me look insane when I've complained because they've taken what the men left thats worth money but the rest of it is in there. And the council have been charged for waste removal and the job but both the waste removal and the job have been paid by me (service charge every week for lights)

I've had scrap men hovering for weeks around it watching like vultures etc every day something new is taken.

I know metal has scrap value. But I want the skip company to be able to take anything useful for scrap not some opportunists waiting to make money out of my rubbish as I've employed them.

If you ask me and I say it's fine. Go ahead. But I find it an invasion of privacy someone looking in your rubbish, or adding to it..

I also left a note on the skip saying to stay away from my skip but it blew inside grrrr.

I basically feel like I've opened my own 24/7 recycling plant that I get no benefit from.

For added drip feeds I'm 33 weeks pregnant and hormonal. Please take that into account

So yabu- you've chucked it it's public property, people can do what they want

Yanbu - they are a bunch of cf'ers and I would shout at them all too.

Skip companies absolutely do sort the waste that comes in via their skips. Sending waste to landfill is expensive, due to landfill tax. So they make money by recycling or selling on what they can, and they lose money by sending waste to landfill.

For that reason, it's not ideal for them to get a half full skip back, as they don't make their projected profit for the skip if there's not a lot of stuff in it. Some skip companies will charge an additional fee to collect a half full or empty skip because of this.

OP if you don't want people rummaging in your skip, next time order an 'enclosed lockable' skip, they're designed specifically to stop people getting in.

Source - I've worked in the waste industry for several years.

I really do not understand why you would be getting in any way bothered by taking stuff out. It is stuff you are dumping. If someone else can make use of it, surely that is a good thing? I do think it is cheeky to put stuff in someone else's skip though.

Yabu!

You threw it away

it’s too late to be possessive of it now

imagine having the time and energy to get cross about people making use of stuff you were going to landfill.

I am actually really happy to hear this as I felt so guilty when we had a skip that maybe stuff was going to be dumped that could be recycled.

This this this!!!

I didn't know about this type of skip thats very helpful . But I knew that they make a projection based on their skip and not being able to make any money that was designated for them is whats enfuriating. Thank you for summing up my pregnancy brain.

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It wasnt even her skip 😂

I think taking stuff out is ok? But then I don't have a car so I only help myself to small useful bits out of skips that I can lug home under the buggy. Usually bits of old shelves or other small random pieces of wood that I'll leave lying around my kitchen for 6 months before I get round to using to fix/upcycle something.

I've only ever put stuff IN someone else's skip one time (neighbours, we were moving out) and I knocked on their door and offered £10!

I think after having some lunch. I was most annoyed because he had parked outside my house in a massive cocking van. So I had to waddle up the street to find he was only there to take some stuff from my skip (he didn't get anything because he'd already been. Hence why I went into one. The stuff he had taken was what I wanted to photograph that had been left by the council as well as other stuff that they've left) he then drove straight off leaving a 2 space gap I could have parked In.

General consensus I think if its okay to be taken should be left at the side of the skip. It's the rummaging I hate.

I don't like having skips for longer than necessary as they kill grass etc and I generally am an emotional Karen.

Thanks for letting me rant.

I would be less bothered about people taking stuff out of the skip, but it would annoy me people putting stuff in it. If you want to get rid of stuff, pay for your own bloody skip!

When we had a skip, one of our neighbours came and asked if he could put some stuff in it and even then I was reluctant. It would have been sod's law his stuff would have meant we couldn't fit all of ours in and we'd have ended up going to the tip anyway!

We did a "we'll let you know when we're finished with it and if there's space you're welcome to use it".

Honestly, skips seem to bring out the CF's!

i can understand the putting stuff in your skip, but why the hell are you bothered about someone taking stuff out to use, i have furniture in my house that was left out to go to landfill, maybe someone needed what you see as junk, maybe you could be nice and put a poster on the skip saying...if there is something you need then help yourself but please do not put your rubbish in it. i watched something a few years ago of a dad going round the bins and skips in november/december looking for old toys that he could give to his kids for christmas, have you heard the saying one mans junk is another mans treasure. good luck with the baby.

Yes this is it, even family and friends knowing you've got a skip will just casually say oh I put something in your skip I hope you don't mind... for added context people that drive it to my house when I live 2 roads from a tip. I have SPD and my partner doesn't drive a car (yet thanks covid) so this is why we got the skip pre baby x

My neighbour had a skip on the road and so many people threw stuff in it that it overspilled and blocked half my driveway. The neighbours were outside and literally watched me carefully reverse around all this crap.

I reported them to the council and they were told to get rid of it.

The bright idea and what I had was a skip with a lid.

We had our bathrooms done last year and had a skip. A scrap man came knocking on the door, sledgehammer in hand, asking if he could go through it.

I didn't really feel as if I could say no. The builder was upstairs where he couldn't hear anything, the garage door was open with all our bicycles, etc on display and the builders tools were in the front garden as he was cutting things. I felt a bit intimidated, like if I said no he might take something else. I'm not saying all scrap men are dodgy, but this one felt like it.

He climbed in the skip and broke all the shower glass and the toilet cisterns to get the metal from them. It made a huge glass mess. I was worried something would scratch my neighbour's car which was close. There was glass all over the pavement when he left which I had to sweep up.

Op it’s a skip yanbu for people putting stuff in but I wouldn’t mind people taking things at least it may be reused etc, at the end of the day thou it’s a skip not your home , I’d ignore the skip and what’s going in and out until it’s gone

I’m surprised I thought you were going to say people were putting stuff in it. I’d be delighted if they were taking shit out, I could then dump even more stuff, can’t imagine getting all protective and trying to save it for the skip company.

A while back I got a skip and it was full to the brim, with even more stuff needing to go in it, and a friend messaged me to ask if she could put some of her waste in it. Items which you can't put in skips anyway. I said no because we still had a load of stuff to go in it and she's barely spoken to me since! I'm assuming the cause is my refusal to let her put these items in our skip but I've never bothered to ask. Skips are bloody expensive and they aren't there for half the neighbourhood to tip their waste into for free!

People putting stuff in your skip is incredibly rude and not ok. Particularly as they have no idea what else you need to fit in there. And particularly poo!!

People taking stuff out of a skip is generally assumed to be doing you a favour
as you don’t have to pay someone to take it away, and it’s getting recycled instead of ending up as landfill like the skip company probably will do.

There's probably a H&S liability here too. If he'd injured himself on something in your skip on your property you may be liable.

I love people taking stuff out of my skip/massive waste pile in the front garden – so long as they tidy and don’t do it dangerously, that waste pile has been stacked brilliantly but some fucker left it precarious the other day by playing Jenga with it.

Putting stuff in is a hangable offence though. Particularly dog poo! What the fuck is wrong with people.

I did get pissed off with people taking stuff off the skip when we were clearing DM's house. It was on the driveway so they had to come into the garden and seemed to think everything else was fair game. I finally ran out of patience when some thieving bastard tried to steal the wrought iron gates we'd propped up after having to take them off to get the skip in!

We had the opposite problem with our last skip. Our neighbour had a fence replaced and DH realised they were dumping stuff behind our skip, presumably hoping no one would notice and they could put it on the skip when they finished. He made them move all of it and watched them load it onto their van, making sure he had the company name!

YANBU. I'm fairly sure it's illegal anyway, taking things out of skips?

If people are taking stuff out, it's definitely going to be recycled way more than the skip company will recycle it. Half of my allotment is kitted out with stuff I took from skips (brick paths, wood for raised beds, top soil, metal poles for bean frames etc)

If it's rag n bone men looking for scrap, they will strip EVERYTHING useful, nothing will go to waste

So you'd rather usable items were dumped in landfill or incinerated to pollute our air than if someone might take them and be able to make a few quid from them? Sounds like snobbishness as well, naice middle class grandparents with scootering grandchildren are fine but dirty, working class "scrap men" are not. Your prejudice is showing op.

Yes you are definitely being unreasonable about that.

No I would just rather the people that I know that work up the skip company get a chance to make some money on my scrap rather than the man in a 21 plate Mercedes van..

I live on a council estate in a council house and have scrimped for 6 months to save up for the skip but thanks for assuming I'm a snob that's made my day 😀