Recycling frustration

[Paulo2]

Saw a very nice Yamaha acoustic guitar at the tip today. Some idiot had chucked it away and the only thing wrong with it was a couple of snapped strings. I couldn't convince the jobsworths there to let me have it even for a small bribe. It was better to let people carry on chucking things on top of it till it gets crushed. Recycling? My arse!

Paulo

[Skodster]

That surprises me greatly. Many (most) transfer stations have a strict policy of separating obviously valuable items and selling them on. It makes more commercial sense even if they only got a tenner for the instrument!

For example, all the bicycles at my local station are taken over to a local charity to be either renovated or dismantled and the parts made up into bikes again.

The transfer stations are treated as cost centres and the waste has lower value mixed up (co-mingled). The site operator was probably just being a twat and taking a twisted satisfaction at your pain.

[frankus]

I find the best way to recycle it is to say "grr I'm so frustrated!" and if I say it enough some daft sap will say "why's that" and I can bore them with it

my mate works for Biffa and they've really clamped down on them selling stuff on now - he got a great Marshall amp and a load of pedals that way but that was many years ago now.

[imported_none]

My friend works at the tip and one day he found a Marshall amp (nothing rare or expensive) which he kept, and there was a big bag of weed stuffed inside.

[ianpdq]

Same problem with my tip piss me right off

[frankieMART]

My friend works at the tip and one day he found a Marshall amp (nothing rare or expensive) which he kept, and there was a big bag of weed stuffed inside.

Damn that sounds like a good find.

I'm off to the tip tomorrow!

[Jough Rustice]

I was at our local tip once chucking stuff and quite a bit was still usable but it was at the time that charity shops didn't accept leccy items and I couldn't be bothered eBaying them.. anyways there was a big box of old videos and someone who was also tipping said 'ill give you a tenner for those' so I said okay and he gave me a tenner and put the vids in his car; thats when a worker came up and said I shouldn't have done that, jotted down my reg number and said that is one strike against this vehicle, 2 more and its banned... , so all the still usable which would normally be put in the 'still good' container I smashed up in front of him and it went into the skip.. I know it was petty of me to do this but he proper wound me up.

[limbicsystem]

Our local tip is rubbish...

[SeriousCat]

Our local tip is rubbish...

lol

[bertie]

here in South Glos, and down in Debbun where ma of bert still lives, they have a policy of making non electrickery stuff that may have even a slim chance of re-use, available to others at a price or or to 'freecycle' type charities.