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[Rick]

I did a tip run today, and like a good citizen, put a few old metal bits to one side to sling into the correct, metal items, skip.

The very diligent official pointed out to me that old car bits - in my case the old propshaft I'd removed from my Disco - have to go in the general, non-recyclable, waste chute, rather than the metal bin. It seems they don't like the risk of any metal parts containing something other than metal, in this case a few traces of grease within the UJs either end of the prop.

I've always lobbed odd car bits in the metal skip, looks like I was acting in error ...

RJ
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[BigJohn]

Sounds like a jobsworth.

[Rick]

[alastairq]

A clear conscience, then, knowing the old Landy will actually be performing a useful function......providing decent foundations for the next lot of cheap-to-build, expensive-to-buy housing that will cover the tip in the future?

Far better, than to spend the rest of your days scrutinising every part of one's new washing machine, for bits one may recognise?

[Minxy]

Certainly at our tip it would go in, likewise electrical items that have mixed contents go in the electric bin. A friend of mine works for a company that receives these type of items and along with a couple of dozen other folk he stands at a bench and rips apart items to separate individual components -apparently it's big business.
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[BigJohn]

I fell foul of a Jobsworth at a council recycling depot a few years back over a gas cooker, but I won my argument. It was my sons and when he asked if it was mine and was I a resident in the borough I said "no, my sons, and he is".
The little irk said I couldn't tip it from the back of my Mazda Bongo. After much discussion, with him getting more and more excited, I got bored, I'm 6'6". I chested the oven and threw it into the skip and said "Well you better fish it back out then". Apparently I was allowed to do it "this time, but not again". Hell my back hurt that night but I had the warm glow of a winner.

[Riley Blue]

Different councils will have different contracts for recycling the waste they collect so it wouldn't surprise me that what is acceptable by one may differ from what is acceptable at another. We have a 'rag and bone man' who tours the neighbourhood every couple of weeks picking up stuff, car parts included - for which he pays if it's good scrap metal.
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[Peter_L]

Sounds like a "jobsworth" but maybe some flawed academic making the rules and perhaps a need to change the contract for who ever is collecting scrap metal.

I wonder if those involved have ever seen a "shredder" in action ?

OK, so the major fluids may be removed beforehand, but there is no one flushing every speck of oil from the engine, transmission etc.

As Riley points out, different requirements at different places. Our close local waste take batteries but not lithium, the closest for those is another 100km (60 miles).... guess what bin old lithium are going in ?

Councils and common sense are sometimes not included in the same sentence.

[alastairq]

[Peter_L]

The beauty about opinions, we are all entitled to them.

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[Riley Blue]

[Bitumen Boy]

[Penman]

Hi
A lot of councils have also farmed some of their services out to a company called Capita.
They don't acknowledge that there is a letter R missing from that name very near the front.
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