john_3.0s Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 ok now this is scarry! I went to the tip this morning, not an unual thing for me on a sat morning hence i know a couple of the blokes down there and normally have a quick chat whilst unloading. Ok so this morning i went twice on the second time one of the blokes came over and siad hey look at this, produced a rugged PDA from his pocket and he had a message saying a car with my number plate had arrived for the second time! YES this is hard to believe, but the council have installed a numberplate recognition system that alerts the ppl working there if cars come more than once. Incredible isnt it, they are closing wards at the local hospital, including maternity (and A&E if they get their way) to save money but the council run tip can afford this gubbins ! Luckily the ppl working there are seemingly a bit more pragmatic that the numpties in the local council dept and he said, i quote: "im not a f*cking copper, if they want to turn ppl away then they should come down here and do it them selves - those f*ckers have never done a days work in their life so what the f*ck do they know" or somehting like that...made me laugh, so all that money spent for absolutly no purpose.
flyingbanana Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 the police in my area are getting rid of loads of 19 inch flat screen monitors because 'they cant lower or raise the height of them'....for health and safety reasons ...if thats not wasting money i dont know what is
ZetecVan 2.0 Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 Yes, because we pay our council tax so we can't dump our rubbish. I can't take my van to the tip because it's classed as a commercial vehicle even though it is 42 years old and hasn't done any commercial work for years!
Toby Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 the police in my area are getting rid of loads of 19 inch flat screen monitors because 'they cant lower or raise the height of them'....for health and safety reasons ...if thats not wasting money i dont know what is Agree with this Just for the sake of argument why are you going to the tip twice in one day - some people - my brother in law for one, throws everything away, I pay as much council tax as him but throw less away, so we are all subsidising his land fill!! When I had the boot on the other foot (to support both sides of the argument ) I took some old tyres to the tip once, and the bloke at the tip said "you can't leave those here" WTF am I supposed to do with them then I asked, fly tip them some where so you can go and get them in your own van??!! "I don't care what you do wiv 'em but your not leaving 'em 'ere" Fookin twat!! Stupid rules!!
ZetecVan 2.0 Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 Just for the sake of argument why are you going to the tip twice in one day I don't go to the tip often (6 times a year if that), and when I do it's usually after a clear out. My father in law goes every week. To stop cars if they come more than once a day is ridiculous if you only use the tip on a handful of occasions anyway.
RFChris Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 I have the same thing at my local tip. As some of you know, we're moving to Kent next week, so we have been having a big old clear out. I went to the tip 4 times last Saturday filling up the Vectra each time. On the third visit the guy comes up to me, same deal, and says i need to pay as it's clearly commercial waste being transported by a private vehicle. I politely told him that some of it was heavy stuff, and as it was raining he probably wouldn't enjoy carrying it back in from the gates, which is the only other place I would be putting it. He tutted and went on his way. It is a pointless system and an utterly sickening use for our taxes, when as you say, hospitals are being closed left right and center. I pay my council tax, I'll use the bloody tip. £1000's of pounds so that a man in a high viz jacket can come to the conclusion that, amazingly, some people might have acquired more than one car load of rubbish. Idiotic.
omj624p Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 I cant believe I'm reading this! Has the whole world gone mad?? This is such a huge waste of time and money
Mrs O/H/C Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 when did this rule of going no more than once in a day happen.....
Toby Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 I cant believe I'm reading this! Has the whole world gone mad?? This is such a huge waste of time and money We're not charging you.
john_3.0s Posted January 19, 2008 Author Report Posted January 19, 2008 crazy isnt it, luckily for me the blokes who work there dont seem to give a t0ss about the rules oh and for the record i go to the tip about once a month to clear out household waste and garage waste for me and my elderly neighbour because they only collect our bin once every 2 weeks - dont get me started in that one
ZetecVan 2.0 Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 We've been monitoring your posts, and have noticed that some of you have posted more than once to this thread in the same day. This is against the rules and we are going to have to charge you £50 to do this.
FredTransit Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 Our local tip lets in commercials as long as it's not trade waste and you can prove you live in the borough (ealing). I take the Mk2 tipper down there! Good thing too, cos I can't stand the winging council that bleat about fly tipping, but don't make it easy for council tax payers to throw thieir rubbish away legally!
Toby Posted January 20, 2008 Report Posted January 20, 2008 We've been monitoring your posts, and have noticed that some of you have posted more than once to this thread in the same day. This is against the rules and we are going to have to charge you £50 to do this. You're talkin rubish!!
Toby Posted January 20, 2008 Report Posted January 20, 2008 I can't stand the winging council that bleat about fly tipping, but don't make it easy for council tax payers to throw thier rubbish away legally!
andy a Posted January 20, 2008 Report Posted January 20, 2008 I had a bloke run up and measure the trailer at our local tip, if its longer than 8 foot (excluding A frame) then its not allowed in, and only single axle trailers are allowed in, mine's 8'2" with twin axles so we had a proper row before I chucked the crap out all over the floor and left him to tidy it up
Mr Sam Posted January 20, 2008 Report Posted January 20, 2008 tell tham theyve got to have a blackboard and chalk they can write the numberplates down that come in drain + money = council
jimbo Posted January 20, 2008 Report Posted January 20, 2008 I don't think that I've taken more than a (Mk IIs) boots worth of stuff to the tip since before I moved two years ago, but seeing how much stuff people chuck and knowing that it costs the council £52/ton to dump it (excluding transport costs) I can understand why they feel the need to do something. Trouble is, all they'll do with ideas like this is push people to fly-tipping, which costs them more to clean up and make places that should look nice, look shite We need to do something, but not number plate recognition. The dodgy b'stads that they hope to catch have probably outwitted the system already, by using a selection of false plates for each run. I studied waste management as pert of my degree and during that time found out that South Glos and Bristol Councils used to train their landfill to a site in Bucks, where their contract was. Meanwhile the landfill sites in S. Glos had a contract to take landfill from central London. Now that is RUBBISH!! I'm a believer in where there's muck, there's brass. Being the blahdy-blah hippy-type that I am, I make a point of using these three methods to get rid of stuff I no longer need Flea-bay (it's amazing the stuff that people will buy) http://www.uk.freecycle.org/ (It's even more amazing what you can give away!) and then I recycle anything else I can .......but I still have to pay my full wedge of Council Tax.....therefore I'd rather pay per weight of rubbish that I throw.
mossy Posted January 20, 2008 Report Posted January 20, 2008 they only collect our bin once every 2 weeks really....brighton do it every week!
richie_stix Posted January 21, 2008 Report Posted January 21, 2008 the police in my area are getting rid of loads of 19 inch flat screen monitors because 'they cant lower or raise the height of them'....for health and safety reasons ...if thats not wasting money i dont know what is sweet, where can i get one?
Toby Posted January 21, 2008 Report Posted January 21, 2008 they only collect our bin once every 2 weeks really....brighton do it every week! They empty our waste bin every other week now, and our recycle bin the other weeks, seems to work but havn't had a summer in the system yet!! I heard we have a rat population higher than the human population in London now - I don't believe everything I'm told, but this could be feasible. Doing the bins every other week wont help either. My cat brings rats home now - which is definately a new thing!!
X FLOW EDDY Posted January 21, 2008 Report Posted January 21, 2008 If you think thats bad this takes the piss !! I live in lincolnshire the neerest councel tip to me is in north lincs, about 4 miles from my house, because its in a different councel area to which i live in up until recentely i had to go to the councel tip 25 miles away to get rid of my rubbish !!! It got that bad at one point that the mini hitler in the green jackit wanted 2 forms of proof that you lived in north lincs before he would let you in In the end the councel gave in and let people within 10 miles of the tip that lived lincolnshire use it. And on there old tyre point lincs councel will charge you £3 a tyre to get rid of them and at north lincs councel tips you can take 4 at a time with no charge !!!!!!!!! Its bonkers.
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