With all the environmental rules and regulations, you could be forgiven for wanting an easier option when it comes to skip hire and waste disposal during household renovations and clear-outs.
But using a cowboy skip hire operator – or an ‘unlicensed operator’ to use the official term – can be false economy if they do not dispose of the waste in the correct and legal way.
The problem is, once the waste leaves your property, you need to know where it goes. That means working with a reputable skip hire and waste disposal contractor who can do the following:
- Provide the right size of skip for the amount of waste you need to dispose of.
- Separate out and process recyclable content from your household waste.
- Help you to understand any banned items that need to be collected by the council.
- Divert as much of your waste as possible away from landfill sites.
- Collect your skip and dispose of your waste when it’s convenient for you.
If you just rely on a ‘man with a van’ to load up your waste and drive off with it, you can never really be sure if it’s going to end up in a back alley or at the side of a country lane.
Fly tipping – who’s responsible?
Unfortunately. if your waste ends up by the roadside and it’s traced back to you, you’re the perpetrator, not the victim.
Because everybody has a certain level of responsibility for the correct disposal of their household waste, you will be held accountable if, for example, a bank statement or utility bill in your name is found among fly tipped waste.
Councils do investigate these incidents thoroughly – and could even take you to court to recover the costs of clearing your waste from the roadside or even worse, the cost of a fire engine call-out if it was left burning somewhere.
The correct way of skip hire and waste disposal
Save yourself the hassle, worry and expense of working with a cowboy skip hire and waste disposal provider by instead choosing a licensed operator who you know will get rid of your domestic waste legally.
Good skip hire operators have a range of sizes of skip, so you can choose one that suits your needs, and in our case we offer an easy online booking system that is praised time and time again in our customer testimonials and feedback.
We also let you notify us online if your skip is full and ready for collection, or if you have a partial load or even an empty skip that you have realised you no longer need.
Best of all, we are happy to work with you to identify what you need to dispose of and whether it’s legal for us to remove it in a skip.
Where necessary, we will let you know if you need to arrange for the council or a specialist to remove anything hazardous or subject to specific legislation, and we will always do our best to recycle as much as possible of what’s left so you’re not just helping the environment by avoiding fly tipping, but by reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill too.
