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“Somebody told me once that they put a man on the moon with a 64-bit computer, so these things, even though most people would laugh at them, they’re still very powerful” – IT consultant Brendan Geoghegan talking about some laptops he found in a skip. Brendan is just one of the many skip divers that are interviewed in a great article for the Irish Times, many of whom have found previously untold treasures at the bottom of an 8-yarder.

Along with his laptops, Brendan has salvaged modems, printers, servers and even a pram for his baby son in a skip outside Mothercare in Inverness. Teemu Auersalo, a Finn based in Dublin, got furniture for his entire flat from a skip and last year, he started up a Facebook group, Dublin Skip Raiders, to highlight any skips about town. Have a read of the article, it’s full of skip diving tips tells of one diver that found Microsoft rubbish worth almost £10,000!

Bit of industry news for you now – plans to build a recycling facility in Ware, Hertfordshire have been withdrawn after local paper the Mercury revealed some less than positive revelations about the work.

Details on the scheme show that the site would be used to handle rubbish from skip hire collections, not recyclables collected from homes in the area. After being asked by the paper for more information, the applicant Mentmore Holdings Limited (MHL) decided to temporarily withdraw its proposals. The site would’ve been used by MHL’s numerous waste collection businesses with any toxic or harmful material being securely housed in a quarantined area.

Last week saw one of the worst fires in waste management history at the treatment centre of a company that provide skip hire in Brighton and the surrounding area. Firefighters spent the whole of Thursday night tackling a blaze at Kingspan Skip Hire in Moulscoomb as it ripped through over 50 tonnes of waste and rubbish.

Crews from across the area joined forces to fight the inferno that threatened to spread to nearby properties, but their combined efforts paid off and they eventually had the whole area damped down and fire-free. As for the source of the blaze, inspectors and police officers have visited the site and will report how the incident occured.

MP’s expenses and skip hire, yes there is a link and the SkipHire.org blog has discovered it. When it comes to claiming compensation, those lot that trip over plastic wrapping tape have nothing on Totnes MP Anthony Steen. He had the highest expenses repayment bill totalling £11,211.75 – which included a claim for £117 paid out to a Plymouth skip hire company.

Aside from skip hire, Mr Steen also claimed £10,252.22 for gardening costs, £10k?! that’s one big garden, he’ll probably need a 14 yarders or even a RORO!

Skip diving, skip dipping, scavenging, rummaging, recycling. Whatever you want to call it, taking stuff from a skip and reusing it is socially accepted and on the increase. A combination of tightened purse strings, unemployment and black market activity has led to people up and down the country flocking to their nearest skip and taking home a treasure or two. And in no greater way has this bean illustrated than in North Lincolnshire.

Over the weekend a fancy dress shop in Grimsby went bust… and lets take a minute here – it’s always sad when such a giver of joy in the community has to put a stop on laughter and curtail the legal supply of chest wigs to the general population. But, in one last act of costume related generousity, this fancy dress shop dumped all it’s stock in a skip outside. Within minutes, Mr Blobby was there, a 6-foot dog and some kind of cat stroke duck creature, plus many more ’skip divers’ having a good ol’ nosey. Check out the pictures here…

Today, as we occasionally do at the SkipHire.org blog we’ll be stepping across the pond to see how those USA types ‘do waste management’. Thoroughly exciting and part of our commitment to a worldwide positive attitude towards recycling and sustainable waste management.

Now, who says the USA isn’t kind to the environment? Not only are they recycling gas from landfil sites but now the largest waste management company in the Sunshine State is planning to step off the grid and power its headquarters with solar energy.

Waste Pro USA will build a 25 kilowatt solar energy power plant that uses photovoltaic solar panel technology to produce 120 kilowatt hours (kwh) of energy every day (the average house uses 50kwh per day). The panels are able to withstand hurricane-force winds of up to 148 mph, which is handy if Alex pops by, but the best bit is this: they are so light-sensitive that they can even pick up solar energy from moonlight.

Keith Banasiak, Regional Vice President of Waste Pro says: “We’re not your usual ‘trash’ company.” Amen to that brother.

Been keeping up with the 6 Nations Rugby? Whether you have or haven’t; you may well have seen the antics of one skip hire lorry driver reported in the national newspapers. Welsh back-row forward, Andy Powell, found himself arrested at 6am on Sunday morning at a service station off junction 33 of the M4 for drink driving.

No laughing matter but there’s one part to this story that is a tad unexpected – Powell was driving a Golf Cart at the time. Before his dramatic return to rugby 15 months ago, Powell was more likely to be found driving a lorry for his family’s company Powell Skip Hire and his recent antics have found him once again unable to play at the highest level. For more on this story and to check out some other rugby player pranks gone wrong, click right here.

A business that provides skip hire in Basingstoke has launched an appeal that aims to raise £10,000 in aid of the Haiti earthquake fund. For the entire month of February, Basingstoke Skip Hire & Southern Waste Mangement Ltd are going to donate £10 for every 3, 4, 6, 8 and 10 yard skip hired towards the relief work in Haiti.

It’s a worthy casue and the money will go towards helping the survivors of the natural disaster that claimed up to 200,000 lives and left almost one million people homeless. Speaking to a local paper, Leah Meyrick, co-director of the company, said: “Watching the devastating news on the people in Haiti touched all of our hearts.” Good stuff and here’s hoping you hit the £10,000 target!

A skip hire boss from Barrow in Furness faces charges purjury after allegedly lying to a magistrates’ court about being on his mobile phone while driving. John Cooper, who’s company provides skip hire in Preston and Barrow, refutes all accusations saying that the cab had been fitted with a working hands-free system at the time of the original offence.

Mr Cooper was initially issued with a fixed penalty notice for the offence, but contested the notice and the court hearing at Furness Magistrates’ Court went ahead last year. In the court hearing at Preston Crown Court on Monday, barrister Mr Jeffrey Samuels QC asked the accused: “Did you deliberately perjure yourself to try to get off that charge?”

Cooper replied “No”.

The drama continues.

A company that provides skip hire in Wigan has been fined £12,000 for operating a waste handling plant without the correct environmental permit. It’s not the first skip hire company to be caught operating illegally and unfortunately, it won’t be the last but it just goes to show that you can never be too careful when letting someone handle your waste.

Ainscough Skip Hire Ltd and its directors accepted the charges, which were backed by evidence from Environment Agency officers who revealed skip waste had been illegally deposited, sorted and stored on a number of occasions. Locals had also raised the alarm after seeing black smoke coming from the site as rubbish was being burned.

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