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[oddjob]

That’s the old number before I put my granddad’s one on.
 

[Grandadrob]

Love that…. If only.
We have regular bonfires here. Very large garden. But try burning grass or green vegetation.

[w3526602]

Since Land Rovers in all their versions were invented before the DVLC/DVLA taxation classes were invented and changed

Hi,

"Workhorse of the World" mentions the Appeal Hearing (mid 1950s) which resulted in 4x4s being accepted as DUAL PURPOSE VEHICLES, and therefore exempt from the (then) 30mph speed limit on COMMERCIAL vehicles.

The ROAD TRAFFIC ACTS specify that ESTATE CARS are also DUAL PURPOSE VEHICLES. Who will be brave enough to mention that, next time their Land Rover is turned away from the tip, and the Volvo Estate isn't?
Discoveries and Freelanders are badged as LAND ROVERS ... I'm not sure about Range Rovers, probably not. Isn't there some legal objection to ambiguous legislation?
 
In 1962, I received an apology from the Beaks, for, endorsing my licence. having been clocked at 80mph, in my 1959 850cc Minivan. on the A1, which at that time was without any speed limit. I claimed it was a car, as I had fitted rear seats. The Clerk of the Court checked his law books, that said that BOTH rear seats AND side windows were required before I was allowed to exceed 40mph. Double whammy ... speeding fine of £2, and £50 Purchase Tax, which allowed me to fit windows. That would have been in the early 1960s, ... my one and only "slapped wrist". OK, I've been lucky,  ... otherwise not even a parking ticket in my 65 years driving.

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[Peter Holden]

I will be taking ours today with a load of garden waste then on to see a chap who is rebuilding S1 107 pickup

Peter

[2286]

Local to me they did a chap who did not own a vehicle for using the tip too frequently.  He was using a bicycle as his transport.

[Wittsend]

In Norwich the city fathers have build a spanking new recycling centre right out past the Norwich International Airport, it's not actually in the city.

It's not on a bus route, no pavement or cycle path access 

Today I had to pay £12 to dispose of my 35 yr old shed 

[oddjob]

Bargain!
This 'little' bit of fencing cost me £50. That was when I stopped taking wood to the tip 

[Genem]

I read these tales with some sorrow. Our "Coup" is free for local residents, "commercial" waste charged for. A "Bulk uplift" will collect 5 large items from the kerbside for £30, so there is no excuse for the fly-tipped suite or mattress scenario.

Garden Waste is collected in a 240Lt Brown Bin, for a £35 annual fee. There are 19,000 out there, with another 6,000 supplied free to people with Concessions. Residents can have extra brown bins, on payment of another £35 each. Yes, its a revenue earner. The garden waste is sent to a processor who turns it into compost, the compost is provided free at Council Recycling centres, bring your own container.   

Why are Councils concerned about land-fill ?  Because they pay £98 in tax to HMRC for every Tonne plus the cost of actually dumping it. That will take the cost to well over £110 a tonne.
The problems seem to multiply when the service is outsourced to commercial operators ?

[w3526602]

Only a Quid?  Methinks you may be living in the past mate.

Hi,

A quid handed to a supermarket delivery driver gets a mass of groceries delivered into the kitchen, rather than the frond door step. I used to have half a dozen supermarket crates that I swapped for full ones. Everybody was a winner ... until a jobsworth snatched them back. His loss!

I currently have about 40 feather edge fence boards, 2 metre long to get rid of, all de-nailed and neatly stacked.  Once they have gone, I can replace my similar height back fence, about 40ft long. I think they have been painted with some sort of preservative, so not permitted as garden waste.

We recently spent about £80 on a clinical waste (black) wheelie bin which they didn't empty last collection day. It's now over-full, and the magpies are breaking into the unprotected black bags. (Whatever turns them on.  )  I guess we are going to have to buy another black wheelie bin, then argue about how many we are entitled to put out. Can anyone advise?

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[The Shed]

Clinical waste bins are usually yellow and require specialist carriers, I was one. Your local health centre or dentist will have a contract with someone.
As for how many bins, it varies by Council but usually only one unless you have a 'good' reason to need more. What that good reason is will also vary but what will not vary is there ability to charge for it !
If you have any communal areas nearby I would suggest just leaving your bin 'in with the mix'. Then be sure to grab it back as soon as is emptied.

[2286]

What would happen (apart from you getting wet) if you removed the roof and sides and drove it in as a "convertible"

In theory you could pile your rubbish right high (higher than if it went inside) and have a net and/or ratchet straps to hold it in place

 

They have height barriers that usually have a speed hump directly under it to jolt you upwards even if you crawl along.  The barrier itself being too low for anything other than a car anyway.

In the old days they used to have a man who shot out of his hutch like a cuckoo clock and would unlock and swing the barrier open depending on if he like the cut of your jib.

[w3526602]

Hi Shed,

Barbara is unable to get out of bed, so a team visit four times daily to change her super absorbant kex. After four days, our black wheelie bin is brimming.

Rats and magpies are able to penetrate the thin black plastic bags (I don't know why they would want to) and scatter the contents. TOOLSTATION sell superior strength black plastic bags, called RUBBLE SACKS (just in case you need to know that.) But I pay my taxes and council rates, which I assume covers the collection of clinical waste.

I can feel a crusade coming over me.

And then there is the matter of Social Workers carrying out jobs that should be carried out by nurses. The Social Services will soon be charging for their visits (£5 an hour?) while nurses are NHS, with no charge. OK, I'm not sure of my facts, yet, but I'm working on it, as are others.

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[Wittsend]

Get your neighbours to write and complain to the council

[The Shed]

Hi Shed,

Barbara is unable to get out of bed, so a team visit four times daily to change her super absorbant kex. After four days, our black wheelie bin is brimming.

Rats and magpies are able to penetrate the thin black plastic bags (I don't know why they would want to) and scatter the contents. TOOLSTATION sell superior strength black plastic bags, called RUBBLE SACKS (just in case you need to know that.) But I pay my taxes and council rates, which I assume covers the collection of clinical waste.

I can feel a crusade coming over me.

And then there is the matter of Social Workers carrying out jobs that should be carried out by nurses. The Social Services will soon be charging for their visits (£5 an hour?) while nurses are NHS, with no charge. OK, I'm not sure of my facts, yet, but I'm working on it, as are others.

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It's sounds like exactly what I would collect, albeit from commercial premises. I feel sure this is something you should have help with disposing of.
It is something you really do not have control of so it is unfair that you are having to cope with this issue.
As an aside, I did complain that the Blood Transfusion service where disposing of paperwork in with their clinical waste. Not really my problem but clinical waste is expensive to dispose of in comparison, and as a tax payer I thought this a waste of money.
Response was that it contained some confidential info'. So have it shredded !

[w3526602]

Hi Shed,

We have already purchased one BLACK wheelie bin, at about £70, "especially for the occasion", and it looks like we are going to have to buy another. But will the LA empty two bins?

Then there is the matter of the black bin lorry driver knowing that he needs to drive down our cul-de-sac, and reverse his 17 tonner back up, just on the off-chance that somebody has left a black wheely bin out for collection. I have never seen another black bin, and didn't know they existed, until a couple of weeks ago.. On the other hand, the week before last, was week was our first week, with the black bin being emptied, without prompting, for the first time.

Maybe the driver of the big green gulping machine spots the black bin, and phones it in.

OT, A couple of months ago, I noticed one of the bin-men was one of those young nubile people. Equal opportunities?

More OT, while on the subject, I no longer have to take a shower in front of a young lady social worker ... Barbara had reported that I felt "unstable" in that situation. (I did manage to maintain polite conversation).

MK is very different from the Swansea Valley, where I could just wander in to County Hall, unannounced, and have a casual chat with the Head Honcho in Planning, maps and plans spread over the counter, first name terms. On one occasion, I had to return a document by Friday.. Both of us had to sign, but Barbara was working in the Midlands that week. Solution was to get her to sign when she did get home, then nip round to the Mayors house (he was in the bath) get him to write a note on the envelope, authorising its late arrival, then hand it into Security at County Hall. The Planners phoned him the following morning to ask what was going on. Whatever, we got our five figure grant.

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