Yardbird
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How do you all get rids of haylage wraps, broken barbed wire fencing, broken wheelbarrow, that sort of thing?
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Spottyappy
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Take to the tip.
Though it’s household waste, if you mix it in, my guys have always been good and not stopped me.
Though it’s household waste, if you mix it in, my guys have always been good and not stopped me.
Midlifecrisis
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Local dump.
MagicMelon
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I just put stuff like this in old feed bags then go to the local skip every nown and again to chuck it (I dont know if fencing etc is allowed but if its in a bag nobody notices - it not like you can recycle it!). Broken wheelbarrow I dont know though... not sure where you could dump that - can you break it up into smaller pieces then it could just be regular rubbish. Ive got an old broken wheelbarrow which I keep meaning to get rid of but Im the same wondering how to do so, so it just sits in my shed rusting...
pansymouse
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I work in waste management and we run household recycling centres. Yard waste is not household waste and you should be paying to tip it by hiring a skip or hippo bag. In small amounts (the odd bag) most Councils will turn a blind eye if you take it to a recycling centre but as money becomes tighter for them they are becoming more and more strict about sticking to the letter of their legal obligations.
Polos Mum
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Anything metal (including fencing, barrows, old bath watertroughs etc.) I take and get weighed in for scrap - I only get £10-20 but it covers the diesel of taking it there. An old bath I couldn't give away on facebook earned me £30 !
Haylage wrap I put in my wheelie bin - I can get three whole big bale wraps in a feed sack if I stand on them and squish them in - never had anyone complain - I have wondered whether the plastic would be recyclable - but not sure so they go in the waste bin.
Haylage wrap I put in my wheelie bin - I can get three whole big bale wraps in a feed sack if I stand on them and squish them in - never had anyone complain - I have wondered whether the plastic would be recyclable - but not sure so they go in the waste bin.
FDLady
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Local dump 
im another that just crushes everything to as small as possible and throws it in old feed bags, now and then one finds its way into the house bin but generally we just save them up until we have a decent load to run down. Only once have they stopped me to look in the bags, on seeing it was haylage packaging he just told me to go ahead and throw it in general waste. As for wheel barrows; as long as you split the plastic off old wheel barrows from the metal i've never had any problem getting rid of them either? Alternatively cleaned up a little they make good freestanding herb gardens if you like something a little different.
im another that just crushes everything to as small as possible and throws it in old feed bags, now and then one finds its way into the house bin but generally we just save them up until we have a decent load to run down. Only once have they stopped me to look in the bags, on seeing it was haylage packaging he just told me to go ahead and throw it in general waste. As for wheel barrows; as long as you split the plastic off old wheel barrows from the metal i've never had any problem getting rid of them either? Alternatively cleaned up a little they make good freestanding herb gardens if you like something a little different.turnbuckle
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Bale wrap? BURN IT. Nooooo. I didn't say that.
I would never ever burn bale wrap.
I would never ever burn bale wrap.
Cecile
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The scrap idea you have is genius - I also noticed on freecycle people advertise old wheelbarrows, cookers, fencing on there as scrap to be taken away and it goes very quickly. I assume at the tip when they have a huge bin for metal only they sell that for scrap, never thought about it before your post above
ILuvCowparsely
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haylage goes into the mauve bin liners and council take them, barbed wire to tip in metal container same with barrows and anything else large
ILuvCowparsely
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where do you take it to get weighed?? the local dump?
To those doing feed bags are you saying the plastic ones like hi fi??? only the paper ones can be recycled. We have one of the large containers from homebase with three different large bags in the yard and have two for paper and cardboard and the middle one for cans plastic bottles and supplement pots and council take it on the recycling week. All the yard people put their drinks cans in it and bottles so less rubbish
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Cahill
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you need a licence to weigh-in
Gift Horse
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You just need to take ID such as a drivers licence.
Rowreach
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Really? Our tip has bins for everything - electricals, oil, batteries, white goods, fabrics, glass, cardboard, wood, metal, hard plastics, garden waste, non-recyclables, shoes and clothing, plastic sacks, hessian sacks, feed sacks, and a big skip for silage wrap. Ooh and mattresses. I am such good friends with the bloke at the tip, he asked if he could come to my house warming party ....
I thought the whole idea of having tips was to encourage people to use them and not fly-tip in the countryside.
Polos Mum
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If you google scrap metal and your town or weigh in scrap XYZ city you'll get the details for your local scrappy
You do need proof of ID (driving licence) and they like to pay it into your bank account rather than cash - but I don't find that too much hassle.
nikicb
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What happens with the waste from a private yard with three ponies? I tried for a while to get my plastic recycled. I had a friend who had a yard which was big enough that she could join some farmers' recycling plan so I was able to take all my plastic sacks there. Sadly I can no longer do that as she moved and I don't generate enough waste to recycle under this plan so have to just take it to the local tip. I hate sending it to landfill, but I am not sure what choice I have.
Rowreach
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Don't know where you are, but I just take everything to the local tip and they are absolutely fine with it.
ETS that there is so much pressure on local authorities to raise the percentage of waste that is recycled, I am sure they would rather horse owners took stuff to the recycling centre than squirrel it away in the wheelie bin where it will end up in landfill.
nikicb
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West Berkshire. But I have a feeling my plastic bag rubbish ends up in landfill as it goes in the general waste skips. x
Rowreach
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We literally have a different skip for every different kind of plastic/feed/paper bag imaginable. I'm a bit of a regular
pansymouse
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Actually very little household waste these days goes to landfill most is recovered which means that it is processed into a fuel stock for energy from waste facilities, at the moment usually in continental Europe but increasingly in the UK.