[Closed] There are some dumb people in this world.

That sounds like four or five hundred quids worth of Thule 🙁

Probably didn't spend enough time playing outside and climbing stuff. Honestly, it's unbelievable.

Our council tip would make you cry. All is recycled, ie squashed and separated.
Tv's pc's etc.
Five minutes of check over would reclaim such a lot.

I'm outraged.

PS any attempt at personal "recycling" is dealt with as theft.

I think you'll find that any attempt at personal recycling actually is theft.

Recycled? You mean processed and THEN sent to landfill... ''We recycle 90% of the waste we collect....' And then landfill it.... Such a false economy. I know. I work in the waste industry.

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I was thwarted in getting them by the lady in a lumi jacket. They will be melted down and recycled.

That sounds like four or five hundred quids worth of Thule

There's your answer. The recycling workers have their perks.

At our local tip they pull stuff that works out and some polish ladies sell it from some shipping containers. there's all sorts there...

Came across this great [url= http://www.moraywastebusters.org/reuse_reclaim.html ]wee project up north[/url]

Its a recycling charity that has set it up within the council tip - when you turn up with a car full of unwanted stuff you have the choice to either throw it in the skip or offer it to them to repair/refurbish and sell. They've built a little shanty town of sheds and polytunnels around the skip site where you can buy what they've reclaimed, theres some great stuff in there and its not unlikely you'd leave with more stuff than you arrived with.

Modern day wombles.

Kayak? Mine is going down the tip, anybody want it?

What is it aracer? We are just buying some...

I've liberated a mint rocking horse (think the tip workers had set it aside, but you snooze you lose and that), a couple of bicycles and various other bits and bobs over the years. Had my eye on a kid's bike at the weekend but was out of reach and the high vizzes were hovering. Amazing what people just chuck away 🙄

People throw lots of things to throw away but dumb?

[quote=matt_outandabout ]What is it aracer? We are just buying some...

Almost 30 year old kevlar slalom kayak (Nomad Extra, as used by Richard Fox!)

Many recylcing centres/dumps salavge good stuff for charities who then sell it on. So you going there and scavenging might impact on the charities work. And if the workers have it for themselves, then them's the perks. Don't moan about it.

Please eradicated the word d**b

Good to see you are not prepared to suffer thules gladly

shermer75 - Member

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I work in the waste industry.

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...nice to see a Oz gif, btw. I miss that show.

By coincidence, I'm about to go outside and cut up some salvaged wood.
Mrs MTG was at the tip when a guy pulled up alongside with a trailer load of thin logs/thick sticks.
He had cut down an overgrown hedge and was about to skip it all.
She gave him £5 for fuel and he delivered it here instead. He has since brought two more loads and I think there's another one to come.

Taking stuff out of the skips might be theft, but intercepting people between their car and the skip isn't. 😛

Edit;
Some firewood, yesterday.

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edward2000 - Member
Recycled? You mean processed and THEN sent to landfill... ''We recycle 90% of the waste we collect....' And then landfill it.... Such a false economy. I know. I work in the waste industry.

I would love to know what you do in the waste industry thats tells you this. Its bloody expensive to put waste into a landfill, most councils are keen to get back what they can. I should know I also work in the design and development of waste infrastructure*

*not a bin man.

I always feel slightly chastised by the vizzes at the tip. Either they consciously employ those sorts of people or that's what they become through the osmosis of working there. It's like they have an iota of power in the world of discarded rubbish and one way or another they're going to let you know it.

MidlandTrailquestsGraham

Taking stuff out of the skips might be theft, but intercepting people between their car and the skip isn't.

This^^^ When i needed a few Microwave oven transformers for a little project i'm working on (Death star..... 😉 my local tip, which has a pile of old microwaves so large it can be seen from space, wouldn't even sell me some, based on some H&S bull that i might hurt myself with them and sue them etc! So, i just stood by the gate with a sign that said £5 paid for your broken microwave, and 15min later i had 7 of them 😉

(when you consider that you'd pay well over £150 for an equivalent sized transformer new, £5 each is a bargain!)