To think it's no wonder people fly tip?

[QuestionableMouse]

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!

I don't even have a recycling bin to scrunch cardboard into. Just a shitty blue bag the size of a 'bag for life'. On bin day I have to wheel out the black bin, then go back for the glass box, then do a third trip with the bag for paper/card and the bag for plastic. And I live up a path so it's about 50 metres to the road!

People in other countries have to put it all in their car boot and drive to the tip.

Stanley knife will sort it, or chuck a bucket of water over it to soften then it will fold. Store it your house till you can get to the tip, or pay the extra to have the delivery take the packaging away. Never a reason to fly tip at all.

Please go back and read my posts.

Did you miss the bit where I said there's no skip appointments?

I think you're getting an undue hard time here op. There is no excuse, BUT societally fly tipping is an easily predictable side effect of inadequate refuse collection services. To minimise fly tipping councils need to consider the impact of their policies and act accordingly to provide adequate provision whereby people won't feel like they have to fly tip. Seeing the council leaving all that recyclable refuse on the street will inevitably cause feelings of resentment, frustration and "the council leave shit everywhere so why should I care about the environment?!" Attitudes. It's not right. Fly tipping is awful. But it's predictable and council services should be such that it's minimised.

That's what recycling centre are for. You take big stuff there.

How when there's no appointments?!

The ones where you said it was too thick to fold?

A Stanley knife (known as a 'box cutter' in the US) is for slicing not folding and will cut through even thick cardboard.

I mean, exactly how thick is this box?

Don’t condone it but making a thread how it’s actually ok 🌼

Sorry, no, this is basically just involuntary littering.

You've totally misunderstood my post.

I never said it was okay. I never said I thought it was okay.

I said I can understand why it happens when it seems impossible to get rid of stuff in the correct way!

There will be more than one household waste site in your county - and not all work on an appointment basis - tbh it is v unusual - which county are you in?

And lots of supermarkets have recycling points in their car parks. There is no excuse at all

The new one is in a town that's a 15-20 minute drive away and they've been so busy they're turning people away.

The only supermarket recycling point in my town is for clothes!

Which county?

Qustionablemouse I totally get your point, bins aren't getting emptied enough and idiots (not us) are fly tipping

Doesn't matter about recycling anymore, everyone just wants rid of their rubbish

Why should I tell you that? Everything I've said is true.

That wouldn't work for me - the recycling centre, can only be accessed by car, there is no pedestrian access and I don't own a car. It's also pre booked appointment only so I can't even go by taxi. That said I would have made every effort to make it fit in the bin, and if I couldn't would have tried to walk to work with it where they have large recycling bins.

No excuse for fly-tipping. It is ignorant, lazy, selfish, uncaring, uncivilised behaviour.

How do you do that without a car?

Where I live, the appointment system at the tip is so much more efficient-no more queuing up,we just drive in ,drop stuff and drive out.

If you have a car, or can get on public transport with your rubbish (in black sacks) then please do,we have to look after our country as best we can.
Take it to the tip!

If dustmen forget it /don't have space on their truck, then email council and politely ask that they return asap.

Bloody frustrating for you OP if there's no tip appointments.