Good Morning Worlds!
We are going to the tip this morning. It will clear some of the stuff we sorted yesterday from the drive. I don't think we can clear it all unless we took the trailer, but the trailer is full of steel for weighing in.
Later I might carry on packing tote crates.
Tip trip done, and another car load cleared out.
I have taken the new trailer axle, and trailer drive motor system, out of the scrap metal trailer load. That means we can get more scrap metal in there and also not accidentally weigh in the parts I want to keep.
I think, next, I will start moving the scrap steel from the back garden into the trailer so that it is ready to go.
Scrap steel prices are not very high at the moment but better than nothing, if I take enough of it in one go.
Still have to sort the non-ferrous scrap.
@Maker_of_Things How does the tip work? Do you get paid for certain things and have to pay to dump other things?
(Are you preparing to move house?)
@amenonsen
We are preparing to move house, hence getting rid of anything we don't want to take, or is not worth transporting the distance.
The tip is the local recycling centre. It is accessible by car and the public can drive in and dump their waste. There are separate containers and skips for the waste, and we have to sort it into the correct ones as we unload. It is funded through local taxation and free for domestic and household stuff, though the organisation also makes money from some of the value of the recycleable and reusable waste.
Trade waste producers need to register and pay for waste disposal by weight.
There are some things that are more difficult to take, plaster and plasterboard, toxic and hazardous substances, etc. and that can be taken to different processing sites.
Despite it being free to use for domestic waste, we still have an illegal fly tipping problem.
Alfred Chow - Maker of Things
Abhijit Menon-Sen