Ain't Nobody Here Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I took 15 bags of old WIR bedding to the council tip today (my compost bins are both full and there was just nowhere to put it ). Whilst there, a couple in front of me was about to chuck a compost bin and a water butt into landfill . I leapt out of my car and managed to rescue them both . I could really do with another compost bin and although I don't really need another water butt, it's being used to store my garden tools at the moment. Neither has a lid but that's easily remedied . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bramble Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 You got there just in the nick of time, phew! It never ceases to amaze me what people take to the tip, where I used to live, the chaps who worked at the tip were always fishing perfectly good stuff out of the skips (like garden furniture, not to mention compost bins, water butts, bikes etc) and putting it in a "rehoming section" in the corner of the car park for others to help themselves to, why don't more tips do that? Well done on your find anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sari Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I saw some lovely bone handled butter knives and fruit knives in the doemstic rubbish bin once... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacake Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 we got our bedside tables out of the council tip, a good scrub and they were fine, I wish our tip had a rehoming area though, as so much is wasted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 One of our local tips has a recycling centre - brilliant for picking up 2nd hand stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted March 28, 2011 Author Share Posted March 28, 2011 It was while I was putting our old bathroom cabinet in the "reusable" section that I spotted the woman chucking the bin & butt . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Our local tip started a rehoming area a long time ago and it progressed and evolved into a Hospice Shop - it is the first building you come to on the one-way system around the whole tip and has signs asking for re-useables to be dropped off. After that, there are other points for dead PCs/TVs etc, wood, green waste, cardboard and then ending up with rubbish that is not recyclable. The other tip we use (just over the county border, shhhh ) hives good stuff off and puts it all by their shed for sale. OH is used to me "Ooops, word censored!"bling people before they even get to the containers - he used to hide I gain lots of wobbly wooden ladders for all our hens at the tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Hubby often comes home with stuff - the office chair I am sat on now was one of several nearly new ones he rescued when an office was refitting,& he brought home a sweet little cast iron & marble table last week,which is just right for garden drinks in the summer. He once got a couple of Tiffany type lamp shades - big heavy things - that got a clean & went on eBay,& sold for a decent whack. his top find was when they were breaking up the set to a movie (can't for the life of me remember which one), & he got all these pillars & columns that look exactly like very old stone,but were polystyrene. Had no real use for them,but they sure gave the garden a certain something for a while! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Love the old set being in the garden I work(ed) at a Scenery and Prop hire unit so have a mannequin arm, ET head, chicken weather-vane thing ... you get the idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I have been collecting old 'hallway mirrors' as I am planning a montage of them on a large gable end wall in my attic room. I never pay more than a couple of quid and have about 20 now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
