Really boring - what do you do with yard rubbish?

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Sorry for the mega dull question, but not something I want to post on Facebook haha!! A question for people who run/own yards. I wrongly assumed that Business Rates were like Council Tax, and covered bins etc, we've just been assessed for rates (under small business relief, phew) and then I looked it up and found out NO. For some reason I assumed councils were responsible for business waste, but it sounds like you have to use a private contractor?!
I have a small livery yard of 15 stables, partly private, until now our landlord, who has a next door farm shop, allowed us to put our waste and recycling in with theirs but no longer, despite it only being 1 bag a week :-( and them having about 50 bins.
So what do you do, if you don't live onsite? Do you take it to the tip? Or have a contractor take it away? If so how much does it cost?! The yard barely washes its face so don't really want to start paying for waste disposal. We have about 1 bin liner a week, which is odds and sods, kitchen stuff etc, and then in the winter have quite a lot of what could be recycled - black hay wrapping, feed sacks and so on.

Interested to hear what you do, and sorry to everyone else for posting such a boring question..!!
 
Not a YO, but at my yard we now have to take our rubbish home with us. Used to be collected by YO and go out with their bins in the past so I guess they've had a similar realisation to you. I collect mine in a feed sack and then take it to the tip :)
 
Maybe I'll ask everyone to take their non-yard rubbish home (ie drinks cans, milk bottles etc) and then yard rubbish like feed sacks and shavings wrappers can be burnt!
 
I've just moved to a small private yard, from a large full livery yard. The old yard had bins which were collected by a commercial waste contractor. The new yard asks liveries to take their rubbish home with them, so we all have a spare feed bag or similar in our storage space and I take it home with me when it's full. Simple really and if we take stuff home with us regularly it's no big deal to put it in our domestic bins for collection.
 
I currently bag it up for both my liveries and take it home for my landfill bin but I do have a problem in that everyone seems to think the fairies take it away! They dump everything, even used feed and shavings bags in it, which I don't like, I keep them for later use. Interested to see a lot of folks are expected to take theirs home
 
JillA said:
I currently bag it up for both my liveries and take it home for my landfill bin but I do have a problem in that everyone seems to think the fairies take it away! They dump everything, even used feed and shavings bags in it, which I don't like, I keep them for later use. Interested to see a lot of folks are expected to take theirs home
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I have caught liveries emptying the rubbish out of their cars into the yard bin....and yes, shavings bags, feed sacks etc going in it too!! And I have 8 liveries producing too much to fit in my bin at home :-(
 
OP, be careful if you go down the route of disposing of the yard waste in your domestic waste/recycling collection. I used to bring the rubbish back from the yard where I shared 1 horse 2 days per week until the day the bin men went through it, it was deemed trade waste and they refused to empty our bin until I removed it. I've since heard of others having similar issues.
 
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OP, be careful if you go down the route of disposing of the yard waste in your domestic waste/recycling collection. I used to bring the rubbish back from the yard where I shared 1 horse 2 days per week until the day the bin men went through it, it was deemed trade waste and they refused to empty our bin until I removed it. I've since heard of others having similar issues.
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Don't worry, I don't! I don't have the room in my domestic bin :-)

On a similar note, the recycling company who take away the shop waste refused to take our black hay bale wrappings because 'it was a bit muddy'.....Surely they must handle worse than a bit of mud, it wasn't even poo!! I've seen the food waste that comes out of the farm shop :-o
 
Burning waste is illegal unless it's just natural wood/ vegetation only then only if it is burnt at the place it was produced. Find out how much LEGAL waste collection and disposal is and up your livery accordingly. How much is it over a year split between 9 of you? Why do people expect waste to be dealt with for nothing.
 
We have 10 stables, 2 houses on the site, the stables waste is v. obviously stables waste and not in the designated black wheelie bin just tied in bags but the binmen have no issue collecting it, or the recycling. It isn't a lot thought, usually 1 maybe 2 feedbags worth every couple of weeks.
 
We have large bins provided by the council. Two giant wheelie bins - one for recycling and one for everything else.

Eta we also have a skip on site all the time. Very useful!
 
honetpot said:
I would get everyone to take their own rubbish home and put it their own bin/recycling, or you add the cost of collection to their bill.
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That's what our yo does. They will take bailer twine, feed bags and bale wrap. Everything else has to be taken home.
Not sure what they do with the rubbish they take.
 
Sussexbythesea said:
Burning waste is illegal unless it's just natural wood/ vegetation only then only if it is burnt at the place it was produced. Find out how much LEGAL waste collection and disposal is and up your livery accordingly. How much is it over a year split between 9 of you? Why do people expect waste to be dealt with for nothing.
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I expect it to be included in taxes to be honest.
I pay $4000 a year taxes, which is a lot for my area.
I have no streetlights, no mains water, no mains sewage and bloody great potholes on our road.
We are expected to pay $2.50 per bin bag which we have to buy tags for at the county offices, recycling is free.
Oh, and what really pisses me off, I pay for school buses, I don't have a child at school - go figure.

I burn my waste (when there isn't a burn ban on) - and recycle as much as I can.

If I was still operating as a livery yard, and had to pay for disposal the cost would be included in the livery fee, fortunately when I was waste disposal was included in the farm taxes.
 
The liveries on my yard got rid of the bins and we take all rubish home and put it in out own bins. That was because certain people never emptied the bins and would let rubbish overflow, or put something really big in the bin like a broken rug and leave it for others to deal with.
 
Greylegs said:
I've just moved to a small private yard, from a large full livery yard. The old yard had bins which were collected by a commercial waste contractor. The new yard asks liveries to take their rubbish home with them, so we all have a spare feed bag or similar in our storage space and I take it home with me when it's full. Simple really and if we take stuff home with us regularly it's no big deal to put it in our domestic bins for collection.
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This is what we do too
 
Taking it to the tip will be time consuming and waste your time.
You may not be allowed to burn rubbish depending on local bylaws and your neighbours wont appreciate it and neither will the environment!
I would get quotes from a commercial contractor and then add it on to the costs of running your yard and increase the livery fees accordingly.
 
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