Rubbish/Skip

[lilyjean]

We have a major problem with all sorts of rubbish left on our allotment, this has been going on for a number of years. Understandably the tenants who take on the new plots are very distressed having to somehow shift rubbish, including rubble. I've just seen from another forum that councils from selected areas deliver a skip twice a year. Is this right? as an allotment association can we ask the council to drop a skip? and what are the policies for accumulation of rubbish?

[lilyjean]

[kippers garden]

I don't know how it gets there....i assume the council have an agreement with our committee, but we do have a skip twice a year.  We are only allowed to put things in that can't be composted but they get filled within the day.

[cornykev]

We have a trailer twice a year if we request it from the council, if you compost most weeds and burn undesirables and diseased plants then no one should have more than two or three bin bags a year and on our site it would bearly fill half a trailer.
The two problems we have are, people bringing their own rubbish from home and people leaving the site and leaving a lot of toot that the following lottie holder doesn't want, we have just had someone leave the site and they,ve left loads of tyres on their plot so thats a problem the council should be dealing with straight away.  :(   
If you are a council site Lily then request one, how does rubble get onto your sites and like us, the tennents leaving should clear their plot or be charged for not doing so.   ???      ;D ;D ;D

[Gillysdad]

Here in Gateshead we used to get two skips per year. Having had a few incidents of damage there was always broken glass and beyond repair wheel barrows, not to mention rubble and stuff left by fly tippers to take away.
The skips suddenly stopped coming. When asked why it seems the council no longer have their own skip service. It has been 'contracted out', meaning they have to pay for each skip used. Needless to say they can't afford skips for us.
I'm quite prepared to pay a couple of quid extra on my allotment rent per year in order for us to have tidy and safe gardens, others are not so keen.

[Trevor_D]

As an independent site, we don't get this free Council service.

For the last two years we've paid for a skip ourselves: it arrives in the car park on a Saturday morning and is heavily policed so that only the stuff we can't get rid of any other way gets put in. Then the Sunday is a working party morning, organised so that stuff gets properly packed. It's collected again on Monday morning.

It's not a cheap option, but worth it if you've got stuff that won't fit in the boot of a car or the back of a van. And whether we'll have one next year will be up for discussion. (There's always the danger that if it's a regular occurance, it might send out the message that it's OK to bring any old rubbish to the site because there'll be a skip to dump it in!)

[grannyjanny]

When we took on our plot we bagged up & took to the tip more than 200 rubble bags. There was glass, rubble an uncompostable compost heap amongst other things that you might find on an allotment. We then got a fetish fo rubble bags so we sourced some 4 year old cow manure & bagged up 150 of those & took them to the plot.