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Jun 15, 2021 14:42:42 GMT
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I don’t understand council tips, the ones round here are really awkward too, and next all you get is them moaning that people are fly tipping Well its not right, but if you weren’t such jobsworths then you wouldn’t have to spend £££££’s clearing it all up Or is that just me being logical again? Sorry can’t help it 🙄
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Jun 15, 2021 14:44:16 GMT
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Guess we're lucky round my way,no end of travelling dropside transits very happy to relieve you of excess metal irrespective of its form.
Likewise tip has a metals skip and there's no restriction about what can go in.
Cats and batteries, always worth shifting on separately, again plenty of cash buyers for these if you have a look around marketplace etc.
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Jun 15, 2021 14:54:04 GMT
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loadss of scrap metal merchants my way, Bayliss is a big local family one and theres Sims Metals, which I think are part of a worldwide group, theres also EMR.
Google for your closest ones, take the stuff in separated, take i.d and proof of address.
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Jun 15, 2021 16:19:00 GMT
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council tips around here don't seem to mind car stuff, it's building waste they are hot on, for that I chop it up and put it in bags or the bottom of the wheelie bin, mind you you can take what you like when it's pouring with rain they aren't coming out of their hut then!
I'm fortunate to know someone who among other things collects metal and weighs it in when he has a van full, He doesn't pay but he does change tyres etc for me for free in exchange!
If you know what the catalyst came off of you should be able to find out what it is worth, doesn't matter what condition it's in it's the precious metals on the bricks inside which are worth the money.
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ferny
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Jun 15, 2021 17:18:49 GMT
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If you have Facebook or know someone with an account, it's worth asking in a local group if anyone knows a bell ringer.
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bricol
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Jun 16, 2021 11:00:05 GMT
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Separate the metal into ferrous, non-ferrous, separate out brass entirely and same with yhjr cataylst (chop the cat bit out of the rest of the pipe) and "dunno" stuff - find local smallish scrap metal place and wander down with proof of ID and bank details. Ring 'em up first to check if you want.
Mid afternoon around here seems to be a quieter time - or Saturday morning.
You might be surprised what you will be paid for what you thought of as junk.
Afraid I don't trust roving scrap metal men further than I can throw them and their van with one arm - previous experience starting age 6 . . .
And why take metal to the council tip who will flog it on, rather than get paid for it yourself?
Plastic car parts - I cut up and took to tip, where one said "no car parts" . . . I said "its just plastic bits" . . . and as he like the Lancia integrale I was using to take it, he let me off . . . his mate after I'd tipped it was less impressed though . . .
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Our local tip take pretty much anything (other than plasterboard) even asbestos if you double bag it. I assumed all tips were very similar? There are load of wheels and tyres at our local tip, somewhere for engine oils and filters etc. and building waste is find as long as you aren't a trader (which i'm not so its ok).
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Our local tip take pretty much anything (other than plasterboard) even asbestos if you double bag it. I assumed all tips were very similar? There are load of wheels and tyres at our local tip, somewhere for engine oils and filters etc. and building waste is find as long as you aren't a trader (which i'm not so its ok). Mine doesn't take tyres but does take plasterboard.
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Our local tip take pretty much anything (other than plasterboard) even asbestos if you double bag it. I assumed all tips were very similar? There are load of wheels and tyres at our local tip, somewhere for engine oils and filters etc. and building waste is find as long as you aren't a trader (which i'm not so its ok). Mine doesn't take tyres but does take plasterboard. You send me your tyres and I will send you my plasterboard then :-) I had assumed that all tips would generally be the same (although you could see why some items like asbestos might only be at specific locations available to anyone in the catchment area. It seems crazy that they wouldn't take metal carparts as they are worth money in scrap.
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Yup - just need to be sneakier! When I needed to get rid of an old petrol tank we took it to the tip wrapped in an old sheet. I distracted the guy on guard by asking him where something else went while my bro in law threw it over the side. I’ve since found a local scrap metal guy who’ll take most stuff.
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Paul Y
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I'm in the same boat, got a bumper and 2 doorcards that the tip won't take as they're car parts, and the scrap yard won't take them as they're not metal or attached to a car. Just going to chop them up and put them in the plastic recycling bit by bit. Even with big metal parts you can cut them up and take them to the tip. Or go just before it shuts and you can throw a body in and no one would notice How big a body, asking for a friend….. P.
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go to WS on the Nuffield in Poole , they'll take anything
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retired with too many projects!
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Regarding local tips / household recycling sites, if you havn't already done so, it may be worth checking your local council website for info on what they are supposed to be accepting, as if they are anything like where I am, even in the same area, different sites will accept different things.
As for refusing scrap metal or other materials for recyling simply because it's from a car, that seems odd, unless it's to someone who is arriving in a van full of the stuff & thus they think it's a garage trying to avoid disposal fees? Have they been eqully awkward when it's been a few car parts along with loads more obviously domestic stuff? I've clearly been lucky, as I've had no problems taking car bits to my local - if anything, one time it was a case of one of the guys there being surprised at what I was chucking away (none of it was salvable - all accident damaged remnants from when my Amazon was smashed up seven years ago). As it is, Mrs H has often taken bits too (most recently worn discs & knackered wishbones from our modern(ish) heaps) when also taking garden refuse & they've never minded either.
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Last Edit: Jul 7, 2021 9:24:14 GMT by Paul H
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v8ian
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I guess I'm lucky, drag what you want (read don't want) metal wise down the drive, give it 48 hours and the fairies have taken it, God Bless the fairies
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style. Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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slater
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You must all live in the idil! lucky for it to last 48 seconds here before some Romanian woman is picking it up and taking it back home in her pram. (Baby has to walk home if theres 50ps worth of tat on offer!)
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We've got one of those travellers camps for travellers that don't travel up the road from us. They're generally well behaved, I think the locals round here leave stuff out for them, so they don't investigate any further (like garden furniture and contents of garages) Or it's just a case of don't **** where you eat sort of thing.
Stuff never lasts long at the top of the drive.
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May 27, 2022 13:51:36 GMT
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I used to have loads of trouble with my local tip.
They didn't allow car parts of any kind, including a homemade parcel shelf made out of MDF. I tried to make out the speaker holes were for a telly, but no.
They don't accept pallets with any blue on them as they're trade, even if you got it from Whickes.
They don't take 1 tonne builders sacks unless you chop it up,
They argued the soil i was dumping was classed as rubble because it had stones in it, and you can only deposit 2 buckets of that. 3 days later a Transit van was allowed in to unload a full load of soil with a spade, the owner clearly a mate.
If the car next to you had an old bike, you weren't allowed to show an interest in it as it instantly belonged to the tip the second you drove on site and hadn't even unloaded it. ANy swapping of items was classed as on-site business trading and therefore wasn't allowed. I also found out they stashed bikes and garden furniture and sold them down the local market.
You had to register your vehicle with the council, meaning it was difficult if you borrowed a car or went in someone elses from outside the area. Their argument was why should your council tax go towards paying for someone elses waste? Apply the same rule and you should only drive on roads your council tax pays towards.
Thankfully i've now moved to a different area and a very helpful tip. I still have trouble with non-metal car parts though such as interior items or bumpers. This is a real issue as nowhere will take them yet it is environmentally sound to up-cycle and re-suse parts from scrapyards. Just goes to show everyone's into being green so long as they don't have to pay for it.
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May 28, 2022 19:10:50 GMT
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Haha that sounds dangerous I'm in Dorset, outskirts of Poole. Nuffield industrial estate Canford Heath has a scrap metal merchant that takes all sorts.
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jmsheahan
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Thanks all, I found somewhere down the road in the end and got rid of the bigger stuff. Few quid for the cat too so that was good.
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May 30, 2022 10:29:49 GMT
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As for refusing scrap metal or other materials for recyling simply because it's from a car, that seems odd, unless it's to someone who is arriving in a van full of the stuff & thus they think it's a garage trying to avoid disposal fees? Have they been eqully awkward when it's been a few car parts along with loads more obviously domestic stuff? One of my local tips - I took 2 pieces of carpet. One was an offcut of living room carpet, one was the carpet out of the load bay out of an old estate car. No kidding, they took the living room carpet but said they couldn't take the other carpet as it was out of a car.
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