Trying to be Green

[John Childs]

Offcuts on rolls we give to the village school.

The rubbish goes into a couple of 1100 litre bins that the council empty every week.

[David White]

thanks John problem i have at the moment is im a home based business

[John Childs]

When I started from home I used to put it all back in the boxes it came in. They’re good strong boxes and you can push a lot into them. Then they’d go down the tip.

[Lynn Normington]

Hi David,
we are home based as well, all cardboard cores and vinyl scraps still on backing paper go to nursery’s play schools and care homes, weeded vinyl and backing paper go in an industrial bin collected once a week costs about £ 8.00. I expect if you contacted your local council they may be able to advise, or you may have a tidy tip near by but you may have to pay, or wait till you go to a customer who has a skip and utilize it 😉

Lynn

[Phill Fenton]

I save all my vinyl and plastic off cuts up. Then once a month, I head out into the countryside in my van (at night time) and dump the lot in a farmers field.

Much cheaper than paying land fill taxes at your local council recycling centre 😕

[Marcella Ross]

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[David Lowery]

If you have any offcuts of magnetic material, print your own advert on them,
stating magnetic vehicle panels and vehicle livery supplied and next time you
are at B&Q etc, look out for unmarked vans and wap one on the drivers door 🙂

Dave

[Peter Mindham]

quote Phill:

I save all my vinyl and plastic off cuts up. Then once a month, I head out into the countryside in my van (at night time) and dump the lot in a farmers field.

Much cheaper than paying land fill taxes at your local council recycling centre 😕

Hey Phil can you send me a map mate?
There might be some stuff I could use. 😀 😀 😀 😀
Peter

[Peter Normington]

I just dump all my waste outside of Phil’s place, He then dumps it for me

😀 😉

[David Rowland]

with all that empty space in phil’s unit, phill could turn into uksb’s recycling service

[Peter Normington]

just watching "should i stop flying" what a load of crP They are now trying to pin a guilt trip on us, telling us that the poor people in africa are dying because they have to use paraffin for lighting, but at the same time the emissions are harm full to us all. the solution is, guess what,,,, pay up some more money to grow a tree!!!!

Long live Mike o’Leary, and Stellios.

Peter

[Phill Fenton]

quote Dave Rowland:

with all that empty space in phil’s unit, phill could turn into uksb’s recycling service

That’s right. I’ll charge everyone ten pounds a time (half the price the council charges) then dump it in the countryside along with all the fridges and 3 piece suites that the charity shops won’t take because they don’t have fire certificates 😕

That reminds me. The firm that supplied us with fire extinguishers turned up today to test our equipment. The CO2 cylinder was deemed to be "Out of date" and would need to be sent off "For testing" at a cost of £65 quid. I’ll not bother I said. In that case sir can I draw your attention to the small print on your servicing invoice (which points that employers are responsible to ensure H&S and fire regulations are adhered to) I told him I didn’t have any employees and ended up turfing the greedy b@stard out……. 😕

[Peter Normington]

you may laugh, but "transfer stations" are being set up all over the country, in effect they are like Phils solution. they charge loads of dosh to collect rubbish, giving the impression that they are environmentally friendly,and then dump it in landfill sites anyway,

Peter

[Chris Dowd]

quote Phill:

The CO2 cylinder was deemed to be “Out of date” and would need to be sent off “For testing” at a cost of £65 quid. I’ll not bother I said.

Phil, £65 is a small price to pay for your or your wife’s life. We have 20 plus extinguishers around our building, and I gulp every time I see the annual service bill. The way I look at it is that it is a small price to pay for any ones life.

There are also new fire regs now, not 100% sure of my facts so I’m not even going to try quoting them. All I will say is we’ve just spent over £2,500 extending our fire alarm system to cover every room in the building (with or without the regs I would still have had this done as I feel it’s one area you just cannot take chances).

So pay the £65 you tight git!!! 😀 😀 😀

[Phill Fenton]

I don’t understand why the EEC have a problem with Landfill anyway. Surely there’s nothing wrong with dumping all the rubbish in a big hole in the ground, covering it up with soil, then 25 years later building houses on the site. Houses have got to be built somewhere? And if we don’t need any more houses just grow some wheat and barley on the landfill sites or let some cows and sheep graze on the grass that grows on top of the landfill sites. Where’s the problem?? (?)

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Phill:

I told him I didn’t have any employees and ended up turfing the greedy b@stard out……. 😕

oh my…..not another one….. 😀 ed does that all the time too 😕 the funny thing is…when their on their way to getting turffed out, they always apologise to me before they go, which i think is hilarious :lol1: :lol1:

nik

[Phill Fenton]

quote Chris Dowd:

quote :

So pay the £65 you tight git!!! 😀 😀 😀

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

Never mind that, If there’s a fire I won’t be fighting it with any tested and certified fire extinguishers, I’ll be getting the f@ck out of there!!

[Phill Fenton]

quote Nicola Rowlands:

oh my…..not another one….. 😀 ed does that all the time too 😕 the funny thing is…when their on their way to getting turffed out, they always apologise to me before they go, which i think is hilarious :lol1: :lol1:

nik

Nice one Nik – Whereas Alison just gets embarrassed by my appalling behavior 😕

[Robert Lambie]

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

ignore me here, just thought ide say ive been laughing here at all thses replies. laughing as in haha funny, not sarcasm 😉 :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[John Childs]

A client of mine has just spent £5,000 replacing all his fire hoses, which were deemed "out of date".

Last week he had the fire brigade round for their annual inspection and they asked why he did it. They told him it wouldn’t make any difference to the issue of his fire certificate if he just ripped them out altogether because their official guidelines are that if a fire cannot be put out with one extinguisher then the building should be vacated.

[Chris Dowd]

Here’s a good link to the "Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/pub/384/E … 500384.pdf

As an occupier of a building whether you employ staff or not, you are now responsible!

Like John says, the guide is more for evacuation that fighting fires, hence why we expanded our fire alarm system.

[Neil Churchman]

Just going back to Davids original question about recycling the vinyl backing paper……..

We got stuck on that one before and never come up with a way to recycle the stuff so I think I’ll have to bag it up and take it down the dump! Oh! can’t do that because there’s a height barrier to stop me driving my van in the dump compound 😮

Guess I’ll follow Phil’s idea and dump it in the local farmers field at night time.

[Stephen Morriss]

I love the new rules for taking rubbish to the local tips.

If you go in your car you don’t need a pass but if you walk in you do!

Like some builders going to smuggle rubble in to the tip in his trouser legs in a WW2 POW camp escape type way.

I sent some vinyl and some backing paper to the local recycling centre and after testing they said the papers no good as it’s covered in silicon and the PVC is no good as it’s covered in glue!

I’m sure there must be a process that deals with it but no one can make enough money out of it yet.

Steve

[Gary Birch]

When I worked from home I used to shred all my backing paper just so I could make more room in the bin. a bit of a ball ache tho

Cheers

Gary