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I was in our local recycling centre today, I was getting rid of garden waste. In the wood dumpster, there was some lovely pieces of wood.
I watched one person throw a lovely table made of real wood, straight into the dumpster, he then threw a lovely large mirror into another dumpster, he went out of his way to make sure it smashed, I could tell by the way he threw it.

I even saw one man throw a rolled up carpet into another dumpster, I can't believe the workers did not want to check, nothing was hidden inside. :eek:

As I passed all the dumpsters, I did peer into each one, and the amount of useful stuff that has been tossed away, obviously a load of real rubbish mingled in with the pile.
Can't people be bothered, to flog their own possessions anymore?

Pity you are not allowed to take useful stuff off people, before they throw it in the dumpsters. Nots sure if you can, or can you?


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No, I am not thinking of loitering around recycling centres, in search of freebies. Just genuinely wondering, once a vehicle enters recycling centre premises, do all things for disposal become property of the centre? Or is it possible to just take out of vehicle, and hand to another visitor to the centre, who asks can they have it?
 
Don't know what it is like where you are, but currently, around here a lot of the charities that would normally take furniture are overwhelmed with donations.
 
munch said:
Don't know what it is like where you are, but currently, around here a lot of the charities that would normally take furniture are overwhelmed with donations.
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I think a lot of people can't be bothered taking furniture to the charity shop, far easier for them to throw it in the dumpster, and far easier for some bums to fly tip in someone else's area, or beauty spot.

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Why is it called fly tipping, where does the fly come into it? Or is it because it creates flies, or it is done on the fly, possibly?
 
I used to do a lot of work in those places all across Wiltshire as we collected the scrap car batteries every week. I got friendly with the guys in each one, and they allowed me certain privileges.
I got a lush table and 8 chairs for my brother, a brand new 10ft by 20ft camo net and a 24 pack of beer amongst lots of other little things.

One of the guys at one of them had a whole lock up full of stuff he’d “acquired” and sold on. Not strictly allowed, but the waste was crazy.

We still go to them all, but “elf and safety” won’t let us near the bins now and they are all covered by cctv to make sure the employees don’t take stuff.
 
jonbeeza said:
I think a lot of people can't be bothered taking furniture to the charity shop, far easier for them to throw it in the dumpster, and far easier for some bums to fly tip in someone else's area, or beauty spot.

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Why is it called fly tipping, where does the fly come into it? Or is it because it creates flies, or it is done on the fly, possibly?
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The term fly tipping is derived from the verb tip, meaning "to throw out of a vehicle", and on the fly, meaning "on the wing" – to throw away carelessly or casually.
 
I used to recycle bicycles, and have probably given away 30 bikes salvaged from the local tip. All that stopped about 15 years ago, when the public were barred from taking stuff away.
 
TCR4x4 said:
We still go to them all, but “elf and safety” won’t let us near the bins now and they are all covered by cctv to make sure the employees don’t take stuff.
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ancient_mariner said:
I used to recycle bicycles, and have probably given away 30 bikes salvaged from the local tip. All that stopped about 15 years ago, when the public were barred from taking stuff away.
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Madness. Why not let people take stuff? Workers or the public, who cares? And it'd save transporting stuff and processing it somewhere else.

At the one I go to you pause at a portacabin and they ask you what you've got, they then take some stuff off you and spirit it away... fine by me.
 
I suppose the old saying " one mans rubbish, etc" is pretty much true.
 
you can relieve some one of their rubbish before they place it in the designated location theres nothing the site can do if someone wants to hand you thier junk, but once tipped its the property of the site.
 
I had to put a lot of perfectly good furniture and rugs into the tip some years ago, as I was moving at very short notice from a large 4 bed house to a small 2 bed cottage and didn't have anywhere to store things whilst being sold or awaiting charity collection. It was soul-destroying but I had no option. Things are not always due to laziness (albeit often are)
 
Doc said:
My local recycling tip has a unit were they sell various items recovered from the skips - vacuums, garden furniture/tools, microwave ovens etc.
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Same round here too.
 
Doc said:
My local recycling tip has a unit were they sell various items recovered from the skips - vacuums, garden furniture/tools, microwave ovens etc.
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Bobsyeruncle said:
I take it they're all checked to ensure they're safe?
TBH is surprised they're allowed to do that.
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I thought there would be legal issues with selling off electrical items, after all that is why they may be being dumped / recycled, due to item being non working faulty.


But non electrical should be fine, such as tables and chairs etc.
 
Lindsay56 said:
I had to put a lot of perfectly good furniture and rugs into the tip some years ago, as I was moving at very short notice from a large 4 bed house to a small 2 bed cottage and didn't have anywhere to store things whilst being sold or awaiting charity collection. It was soul-destroying but I had no option. Things are not always due to laziness (albeit often are)
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Yes I know, badly worded on my part. ;) (y)
 
Like others, our local "recycling centres have shops. Well, sheds with useable stuff for sale! One of my golf buddies visits them regularly and buys any good, cheap clubs at a tiny fraction of their new cost. Whether they're dumped by disgruntled exes or widows, who knows but it's far easier to take them to a dump than to sell them on through an auction site etc..

Totters rights are (or were) a valuable thing for site owners.
 
Good thing I have seen on this forum and other places, when someone offers up something, before it gets binned.
 
Funny thing is, we throw all this stuff away after no longer wanting it, it then gets taken to a place where it will be recycled into something else, that we then get sold back to us. :)
 
currently on Virgin channel 128 are repeats of a series called “Money for Nothing”.
The presenter gets special permission from councils to grab items that are being dumped at tips.
They are then given to upholsters, woodworkers etc to make something of for an agreed fee.
The presenter then sells these, inevitably at a profit.
I suppose it is encouraging people to recycle at the same as showing what whacky things can be made out of junk.
 
Peter123 said:
currently on Virgin channel 128 are repeats of a series called “Money for Nothing”.
The presenter gets special permission from councils to grab items that are being dumped at tips.
They are then given to upholsters, woodworkers etc to make something of for an agreed fee.
The presenter then sells these, inevitably at a profit.
I suppose it is encouraging people to recycle at the same as showing what whacky things can be made out of junk.
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I must admit, I have taking lovely pieces of wood out of skips. When I do it, it somehow feels like I am doing something wrong. Not sure if I could be done for theft?

Skips as in outside peoples houses.
 
Might not be all that it seems anyway. I’ve not long taken a load of rugs and carpets to the tip. Although they might’ve looked ok at a quick glance, believe me they certainly weren’t as they absolutely stank. The previous owner of our house wasn’t keen on cleaning and got us wondering if he was also incontinent. :puke:
 
boogie man said:
Might not be all that it seems anyway. I’ve not long taken a load of rugs and carpets to the tip. Although they might’ve looked ok at a quick glance, believe me they certainly weren’t as they absolutely stank. The previous owner of our house wasn’t keen on cleaning and got us wondering if he was also incontinent. :puke:
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Too much info Larry. :ROFLMAO:
 
boogie man said:
Might not be all that it seems anyway. I’ve not long taken a load of rugs and carpets to the tip. Although they might’ve looked ok at a quick glance, believe me they certainly weren’t as they absolutely stank. The previous owner of our house wasn’t keen on cleaning and got us wondering if he was also incontinent. :puke:
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Just in case something was rolled up within the carpet, such as a body. Sorry, watching too much TV thrillers. ;)
 
We had a good sofa, perhaps 25 years old. Tried selling it on gumtree, no interest. Then contacted charities and they didn’t want it as it didn’t have the correct fire resistance labels. Put it on gumtree for free and still no takers. Eventually went to the tip
 
Rapscallion said:
We had a good sofa, perhaps 25 years old. Tried selling it on gumtree, no interest. Then contacted charities and they didn’t want it as it didn’t have the correct fire resistance labels. Put it on gumtree for free and still no takers. Eventually went to the tip
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Trouble is, people can be funny with things like sofas and beds, that have been used.
 
jonbeeza said:
Don't suppose camera equipment would end up there. :)
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I've seen a couple of tripods (not having been looking for [yet!] another tripod, I didn't investigate further) in our closest tip shop.


Peter123 said:
currently on Virgin channel 128 are repeats of a series called “Money for Nothing”.
The presenter gets special permission from councils to grab items that are being dumped at tips.
They are then given to upholsters, woodworkers etc to make something of for an agreed fee.
The presenter then sells these, inevitably at a profit.
I suppose it is encouraging people to recycle at the same as showing what whacky things can be made out of junk.
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And the prices some of the tat they've produced are silly to say the least.
 
Some stuff you see on auctions sites seem to have come from recycling centres, they just have an air about them, and not just the smell. lol ;)
 
jonbeeza said:
I thought bitcoin was on the blockchain in cyberspace, and not kept on your own hard drive?
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IIRC, the online blockchain verifies a coins existence, and logs/confirms transactions, but the data required to own/use it can be stored offline in a "wallet". Lose that, or forget the password, and you're stuffed.
 
Tori_T said:
IIRC, the online blockchain verifies a coins existence, and logs/confirms transactions, but the data required to own/use it can be stored offline in a "wallet". Lose that, or forget the password, and you're stuffed.
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Ahh thanks, that does make sense.
 
Suffolk police spent three years and around £2m unsuccessfully looking for a human body in a landfill, that guy's got virtually no chance of finding a 2.5" drive on his own.
 
Tori_T said:
Suffolk police spent three years and around £2m unsuccessfully looking for a human body in a landfill, that guy's got virtually no chance of finding a 2.5" drive on his own.
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I suppose it depend where an item is dumped, and should it later need to be retrieved. If it was tossed into one of the many dumpsters at a recycling centre, it would be a case of sifting through all the dumpsters, but if it went to land fill, than that would be an enormous task.
 
I get the impression it just went out with the waste. If it'd gone for recycling, it would either be erased and reused, or destroyed to facilitate rare earth/precious metal extraction.
 
Tori_T said:
I get the impression it just went out with the waste. If it'd gone for recycling, it would either be erased and reused, or destroyed to facilitate rare earth/precious metal extraction.
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Who would trust their bitcoin wallet to one device?
My lad certainly doesn't.
 
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