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I have a box full of WEEE in the garage I'd like to get rid of ... checked the local council website.
"Access to recycling centres is prohibited on foot: you must bring a vehicle."
"Any commercial vehicle is prohibited, defined as: any vehicle with Taxi or Hackney plates. Any vehicle with a trailer. Vans, pick-up trucks. Any car with more than 5 seats. Any vehicle whose registered keeper lives outside of the area."
It's like they want people to fly-tip.
I checked mine a little while back to find out if they had facilities for accepting expired photo chemistry. "Leave in chemical cupboard" it said, so off I went.
Chap comes over as I'm looking for said cupboard, asks if he can help. "Oh, just throw them in general waste" he says. "... are you sure? They're pretty toxic and not supposed to reach waterways." So he checks with his boss, who says:
"I told 'im to drink them, might make his hair grow back! Nah, general waste mate."
@twll This does seem to be a common problem. Five years ago, I walked an old radiator down to out tip, it's only a few hundred metres away on foot. Now, no pedestrians, pre-register all vehicles, book timeslots and get turned away if you miss them, and I've just found they're planning on closing it entirely (presumably as fewer people are coming now, I wonder why). Meanwhile, local fly-tipping has increased.
At least we do have WEEE curbside collections in a limited fashion, but this really does feel like the wrong way to going with the recycling centres.
Once upon a time, a friend was moving and we decided to recycle the old CRTs we had collected. Thanks to the move, we had a rental van so we loaded it up.
Between two of us, we had something like 15 CRTs of various sizes, from 14" to 24" monsters. I had one so large and heavy, it could have been operated as a black hole.
We had a massive row with the site operators, they insisted we were trade, we insisted we were geeks.
I've spoken to them before about this... they said I needed to use a skip-hire or a private waste-pickup company, then in the same breath threatened me with prosecution if I picked one which wasn't licensed.
They do one collection per year, maximum of five "items" per collection. Everything has to be broken down. I wanted to get rid of two broken bedside tables, and they told me it'd count as at least nine items each! (edit: top, bottom, three sides, and four drawers)