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Fun Day out for all "A trip to the local Tip"
Wolfie:
--- Quote from: "Tiny Tim" ---Tyre specialists want £5 a tyre to dispose of em
--- End quote ---
That's pricy :o
Last ones I got rid of in Cov were a quid a corner.
Actually, that was the set before the single one I got rid of the other week, they didn't charge me anything for that one, or the u/s rim.
Try another tyre fitters, or wait until you can get to a less overpriced part of the country.
Regards
Wolfie
MrTFWitt:
My local tip, errrr I mean "Recycling Centre" is happy to take tyres at a pound a time.
If they are on a rim I only have to pay 75p :?
Last time I wanted 4 tyres the tyre place wanted £2.50 to pay the environmental tax on each tyre so they went to be recycled at a pound a go cos it was on the way home.
I can be that tight when somebody wants to fleece me under the pretence of being eco friendly.
thermidorthelobster:
I went to the tip with some old doors on the roofrack.
Apparently they have to charge me if I have stuff on the roof, because in the eye of the local council that makes me commercial...
So I pulled up opposite the gateway, took the stuff off the roof, put it on the inside (with the door open) and drove back in. They didn't have a problem with that.
Our lot now don't take oil, which is annoying as I have to travel elsewhere to get rid of it now. They also don't take plastics, so I can recycle cardboard and glass there but then have to take my plastics to the supermarket.
Regarding recycling, Surrey CC collect cans and newspapers from the door, but we have to take our own cardboard, magazines and glass to the supermarket. In contrast, my dad in Devon puts his recycling out, suitably sorted, and they collect it all; and other people I know just chuck all the recyclables out together and the council collect it and sort it. Way to go, Surrey.
NiceBlueWellies:
I ponder once more -
Is is envionmentaly friendy to have to drive to where you have to recycle or not? What if it is a good few miles away. What if you go every week? Are you really doing your bit, or not, because of all the polution you are causing using your vehicle, when otherwise you would not have to drive it at all?
Maybe councils should do more and collect all thing that can be recycled. Wish ours would collect plastic milk containers like the neighbouring council do! They give us a tiny bin to force us to recycle - fair enough, but they should then contribute thmeselves saving us from polluting further, and having to drive to a recycling point. :shock:
MK-90:
Hmmm
I must be lucky indeed.
Did a favour for my neighbours. They needed 2 tonnes of hard core moving from a wall they had knocked down. Fair enough. Loaded up the 90 with as much as i dared and went down the tip expecting trouble. All in all i made 6 trips that day...only 3 were for the rubble.
The chaps were extremelly friendly..even helped me out unloading. Me in builders battered landy with a commercial body on.
Absolute ldgends :D
Go onto your council website to find out where to take your tyres
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