To cope with an increase in the amount of waste being produced in Buckinghamshire, plans for a new waste transfer site have been approved by the local council despite residents’ concerns about its impact on the Green Belt. other objections to the site chosen include the increased noise levels and more hazards for the local [...]

Skip Hire Regulation Gets Serious

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A total of four people have been arrested at a skip hire company in Otley after an investigation conducted by the Environment Agency (EA). Representatives from the agency turned up at the premises of the waste removal and disposal service on December 11.
As a result, three men and a woman were arrested by West Yorkshire [...]

A skip hire operator from Swansea appeared in court charged with 117 counts of illegally dumping waste and receiving over £80,000 while doing it. The operator in question is also accused of providing waste management facilities without the correct permits and treating controlled waste without a licence.
And because your waste is always yours, even when [...]

The construction of a waste incinerator on the edge of Peterhead has been axed after more than 6,000 people have objected to the proposal that would see around 80 lorries entering and leaving, 12 hours a day, four days a week.
A&M Smith Skip Hire had been planning to create the plant that would deal with [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the dark side (of skip hire). An Aussie waste management company has given the world an interesting option on what to do when a customer doesn’t pay for skip hire. Melway Bin Hire and Demolition, based in Melbourne, returned a skip full of rotten fruit, vegetables and rubbish to it’s [...]

Skip Hire Falls Foul On A Front Lawn

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Welcome to the perilous world of skip hire, who knows what’s going to happen next?! Well we’re pretty sure that Kate Scott and Paul Harding didn’t see this coming… The morning after they had a skip deliverd to their front lawn, they had no front lawn left.
The couple woke up to find 20-foot deep hole [...]

Catchy title there.
Anyway, a bit of industry news for you now…
When it comes to skip hire Liverpool is well covered but if you were to look into the handling of municipal waste, you would see that there’s room for improvement across Merseyside. As a result, the Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority is currently looking to offer [...]