To think it's no wonder people fly tip?

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Recycling day today - I put my bin out, along with a big cardboard box from a delivery that I'd flattened. It was too big to go in the bin, and thick cardboard which I couldn't break down. It's been left by the road, along with a bag of recycling from a neighbour who is waiting for a new bin. There's more cardboard been left across the street - looks like a microwave box that's filled with cans, judging by the few around it.

It's so frustrating - all of it could have been taken and recycled but now there's plastic bottles, cans and cardboard scattered all over the street! Can't get a skip appointment for love nor money so what are people meant to do?

My cardboard is going to work with me tomorrow - the house has an open fire so it'll be burned which I hate but there's nowhere to store it and it won't fit in the bin, especially not with another two weeks' recycling!

No wonder people resort to fly tipping when it feels so impossible to get rid of stuff through the waste collection!

Presumably you dont have a disability in your hands or you have people around you who can support you if you do

Whats a mini recycling centre?

But if you put things in a skip or public bin are they still recycled?

It's dependent on the council, fortunately ours takes folded up cardboard boxes as well as emptying the bin, we also don't have to book the recycling centre to take stuff there which would be annoying

I'm lucky as my tip doesn't require booking. They do go through your black bags though.

I'd just stick it in your black bin broken up tbh.

Re booking tips- yes in some areas. I’m lucky in Greater Manchester where we can just turn up but I was horrified that I had to fill in a long 4 page (!!) online form just to take some stuff from my mum’s house to the tip in a town in Gloucestershire. So yes not always easy to get yo a tip. Totally wrong to fly tip though

You're right OP - councils fuck ordinary citizens over with waste disposal. They make it extremely difficult. Having a tip that is not open much and needs an appointment is ridiculous and obviously leads to some people fly tipping. I wouldn't do it and don't condone it, but it's pretty obvious why it happens.

At my tip, you have to pay to dispose of random things - toilets, plasterboard, tiles, asbestos. Well, guess what people do with those things. They put them in black opaque sacks and sling them in the general landfill waste so they don't have to pay. You shouldn't have to pay for a facility that's council run that you have already paid the bloody council tax for. And it's making people put the stuff in the wrong bins to avoid charges. And fly tip. The asbestos particularly gets me - FFS tips need to take that for free and deal with it safely, rather than risk it going in general waste whilst trying to make a few pence off people.

Our waste is every other week for recycling (wheelie bin) and same for general (different wheelie bin). No bottle collection.

We have no issues in dealing with our waste, take excess to the tip if needed, which we pre book. We break up boxes for the recycling bin and just make an effort to dispose of everything properly.

I just feel like loads of people on here find it just all a bit too hard and cannot be bothered.

A mini recycling centre is a load of large bins in a supermarket car park or similar. These bins don't take landfill waste, just cardboard, paper, plastic, tins, glass. That sort of thing.

Well, guess what they did with our mini recycling centre. It was always overflowing so rather than empty it more often, they closed it due to it being "abused". Really pissed me off. It was a couple of streets from me and I used to use it often.

I agree op. Just stick it on the lorry, it’s not hard.

Leave it out in the rain, it will fold easily. Problem solved 🤷🏻‍♀️

Where we live major supermarkets have large recycling bins - I used them when we moved.
But our recycling guys pick up everything - I don't use a box gif my cans, plastic and glass, just white bags and they collect them. Dusky have an extra box of card which I just put in top of the recycling bin- it gets collected.
Complain to your council if the recycling is not collected.

Well lucky you having a wheelie bin for recycling. We have stupid boxes with no lids. The recycling ends up everywhere. And when they empty the boxes, they drop loads of it in the road so we have to go and clear that up after them. Oh, and not forgetting that when they put the boxes down, they throw them so bits of plastic come off, leaving them split and sharp. And then when you go online and try to order a new one from the council (they'll only collect from their own boxes), they say "orders suspended until further notice".

People aren't making shit up. Councils are bastards!

Totally agree. Our street rebelled - we just leave out anything that was not collected in the street - this fortnightly bin collection is as joke. Eventually the bin men started taking the extra bags! We just stack extra rubbish up against the bin. I would happily go to the tip if the council paid back the percentage of council tax they've saved by cutting the bin collections but that will never happen!

I work in waste services and fly tipping costs a high six figure sum ever year which comes out of your council tax. You can chop up cardboard I have a mini cardboard saw from a kids kit or you can use a bread knife. Where I am you don't need an appointment for the tip but it's not open seven days. It is open Tues Thurs, Sat and Sunday but people dump all sorts. This month I've had to deal with thousands of bottles ( If the bottle bank is full and you line them nicely up outside it's still flytipping and all went to landfill) sofas and chairs, lots of small furniture drawers/ coffee table/ shelves, 7 microwaves, two washing machines, mattresses. Not to mention hundreds of black bags this is just a small local recycling centre/ tip so dread to think how much people dump at the bigger ones.

This is what you call an excuse to fly tip? 😂😂

Jeeez, either cut it up or fold it so it's smaller or don't be lazy and take it to the dump!

With thick cardboard like that. I stamp on it. Can you not do that?

If you don't drive you usually can't get to the tip

@Sworntofun its bloody annoying isn’t it?

Our recycling centre is a 30 mins drive each way which makes a tip run over an hour. Plus the booking system is a royal pain.

One which is literally a 10 minute drive if I go slowly we can’t use as it’s a different local authority 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I have to admit the bin men did take all of the cardboard from Christmas and it was stacked up against the bin

But fly tipping is disgraceful and I do not agree with it at all

I’ve got a feeling you must live in my borough. Shit isn’t it.

Ive still got my plastics canvas bag, but the cardboard ones flown into the ether…. Council have done eff all despite numerous Email requests for a new one 😩

I honestly can't think of any places like that around here. There's clothes recycling in the big Tesco but nothing at all anywhere else.

Nothing from street bins (public bins) is recycled. Honestly they are generally full of dog poo so it'd be a disgusting task to try and sort stuff through to find recyclables. In my area they are emptied onto a small truck which tips in general waste. In a skip things only tend to be recycled if they are all the same so a skip of only wood or metal will cost you less than a mixed skip but thats more for builders.

They won't take the bin if the recycling is wet!

I dont drive so absolutely no way I can be taking anything to a tip.

I dread to think how many hours I have spent cutting through cardboard to get it small enough to be taken. For very tough cardboard I've had to resort to sawing through it!

To be fair though, it's not bad where I live. We don't have wheely bins, just a couple of old black round bins and green boxes for mixed recycling. But they come weekly and they take it all. For bigger things the council will come for £10 an item. And tbh they're also pretty good in that if there's an item or two extra there, they'll still take it.

Did you read a single word that I wrote?!

It's already folded flat but it's bigger (taller) than the bin!