Taking the bike to the tip (no, not in that way!)

[thomas]

If they didn't let me in I'd just empty the trailer there and then, ride off and let them pick it up. Sorry but that's what would happen. I wouldn't go back and repeat it though.

With respect, what's this got to do with commuting?

He's commuting to the tip. TBH, commuting is a good place to keep certain types of threads, even if the person wasn't actually commuting at the time. Certainly, if I suffered some bad driving but was just out for a spin, I wouldn't put it in road rides

As for the tip...i'd just turn up, ride in and ignore them. Any problems then just fly tip .

Surely you walk around the tip to empty your stuff, so I hardly see how it's dangerous to walk in.

 

[ColinJ]

It's the same at the Eastwood recycling centre between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden. The place where people park to take stuff out of their cars is about 5 metres from the gates. They walk from there to skips for paper, metal, glass, plastic, an area 20 metres away to leave oil containers, a large wagon to dump old electrical goods in etc. etc. It means that people are constantly wandering about within the site, but I'm not allowed to go in because I don't have a car! I could stand outside the gates and thumb a lift for the necessary 5 metres but somehow I'm not going to bother. And they wonder why people fly-tip...

 

[snorri]

What have a lot of things in here to do with commuting? As for many threads on here, it's more to do with "general use".

This would have been a good thread in the Utility section of the forum, if we had a Utility section.

 

[Debian]

This would have been a good thread in the Utility section of the forum, if we had a Utility section.

Nah! I think it fits into commuting quite well.

 

[Amanda P]

I found out about the "no walking into the tip" rule when I took my (tall) van there. As the height barrier was shut, I parked outside in the layby there and started to walk in with an armful of plastic bottles.

One of the tip guys stopped me and asked me how much I had. I told him "just this", but he nonetheless made me go back to the van while he opened the barrier. I drove it 30 yards in, tipped the plastic, and he then re-opened the barrier to let me out again.

Amazing.

Since then we generally take our recycling in a bike trailer. I don't know if that's technically allowed, but we're always at the skips unloading before anyone's noticed.

 

[billiobob]

I was informed officially in writing from the contractors who manage waste disposal that I would not be allowed to walk or cycle to the HWRC near my home in Manchester, because I would have to walk over non pedestrian areas to get into the site. In practice on arrival the staff warned me that I was in breach of their Health and Safety protocol but then said they could'nt stop me, which of course I don't believe they can. However this is intimidating and discourages me from using it. The laugh is that while at the HWRC people are walking about all over the site on non pedestrian areas with no censure from the staff.

 

[Norm]

If you want to be noisy about it, if you wear a hi-viz and safety boots, as well as the lid, there's probably sod all that they can do to ask you to move from "non-ped" areas of a public site.

 

[classic33]

I've been banned from recycling by my local council because I used to go down on a Brox.
Reason given include the facts that pedal cycles have no body work, unlike a car. This in case a ten ton skip should happen to fall of the back of a lorry, I'd be flattenned because it, the cycle, "gives no protection whilst walking within the site".
Thats whilst I'm walking in the site not the Brox!

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Anyone fancy a Critical Mass to the recycling facilities?

Actually, if I get the answer I expect, I might partake on the next one and suggest it, get a journalist friend for the same group as the Sheffield Star to mention it to someone in the area

I have a feeling that at this time of year when opening times would mean a weekday trip when its busy, I would be queueing and barred, but in the summer if I go down early doors a blind eye might be turned.

 

[classic33]

Anyone fancy a Critical Mass to the recycling facilities?

Actually, if I get the answer I expect, I might partake on the next one and suggest it, get a journalist friend for the same group as the Sheffield Star to mention it to someone in the area

Would that be in one area or possibly nationwide?

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Would that be in one area or possibly nationwide?

erm....

Never really thought about that, this is more idle chit-chat. Perhaps thats how things start though...

If people are experiencing difficulties and being forced into their cars if they want to be environmentally responsible (!!) then perhaps it would highlight such a silly state of affairs.

Or whip the Daily Mail into more anti-cyclist hysteria, one of the two

 

[classic33]

It may be a case of watch this space, with the local elections coming up.

 

[marinyork]

Well you could always suggest it to the Sheffield CM . Is it the valley one you want to go to or one of the others?

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Yes, it's Gleadless, don't fancy the hour long queues at Shiregreen

 

[Zippy]

Don't you lot have door to door collections up your way?