Hippo bargain

[evdamadiynot]

Chatting to the new neighbours whilst theyre having a garden clearout.

"Yes we've got these hippo bags- only thirteen pounds each.
Fraction of the cost of hiring skips".

Bless 'em.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Chatting to the new neighbours whilst theyre having a garden clearout.

"Yes we've got these hippo bags- only thirteen pounds each.
Fraction of the cost of hiring skips".

Bless 'em.

Are they the bottomless type?

 

[evdamadiynot]

Sadly thats doubtful but Id love to eavesdrop on the collection booking phonecall.

 

[opps]

Just looked at the their website- absolutely no indicative prices. Red flag.

 

[evdamadiynot]

Anything between 80 and 300 depending on bag volume and collection address.
It saves the cost,hassle,road congestion and polution of a lorry delivering an empty container or three trips to the tip in a car,but beyond that not much advantage cost wise.
I can foresee some muppet filling a bag in the back garden with no access for the collection vehicle .

 

[Elsa TLC]

One of my customers who's a green party member was using the plastic Hippo bags that will one day find its self in the land fill once it's knackered..

She a total Hippocrite

 

[securespark]

TBF, we used a Hippo bag for a load of stuff the skip co said they expressly would not take. Things like plasterboard and carpet, PC towers and tyres and a few other things I can't remember.

I gave up after asking the 4th skip co. What DO you take???

 

[Elsa TLC]

TBF, we used a Hippo bag for a load of stuff the skip co said they expressly would not take. Things like plasterboard and carpet, PC towers and tyres and a few other things I can't remember.

I gave up after asking the 4th skip co. What DO you take???

I agree with Frank. However be very careful who you use.

I signed up terms and used a company called Hippobottomless, but it fell through.

 

[evdamadiynot]

I gave up after asking the 4th skip co. What DO you take???

Its the same at the tip
I get that separation is key to recycling but they are pinching things down to the point where fly tipping will be rife again.
I have to have permits to take my little van(privately registered non commercial runabout) in there and Im descended upon by inspectors before I start unloading. The estate car behind ,quite clearly tipping non domestic product-could even be nuclear waste for all we know- is completely unchallenged.

 

[robinbanks]

my little van

Time to buy a Ford Galaxy

 

[Elsa TLC]

Its the same at the tip
I get that separation is key to recycling but they are pinching things down to the point where fly tipping will be rife again.
I have to have permits to take my little van(privately registered non commercial runabout) in there and Im descended upon by inspectors before I start unloading. The estate car behind ,quite clearly tipping non domestic product-could even be nuclear waste for all we know- is completely unchallenged.

Totally agree but it doesn't hurt us to separate our wastes to the tip in and organised way.

 

[evdamadiynot]

But outright refusing things ie plasterboard and tyres instead of segregating and accepting them will lead to illegal dumping.
The dumped items will have to be collected by the authorities who could have just accepted them in the first place.
And saved their taxpayer the expense.....
Im a grumpy bstrd ha ha !

 

[JohnD]

But outright refusing things ie plasterboard and tyres instead of segregating and accepting them will lead to illegal dumping.
The dumped items will have to be collected by the authorities who could have just accepted them in the first place.
And saved their taxpayer the expense.....
Im a grumpy bstrd ha ha !

After last year's change of council, my local tip now accepts small quantities of plasterboard, rubble, old bathroom sanitaryware from DIYers at no charge. The previous bans and high charges unsurprisingly led to fly-tipping.

They claim to keep a register of how many sacks you have brought by recording the registration number of your vehicle. I don't know if that's actally true. But they would notice if you arrived with a tipper truck full.

 

[Elsa TLC]

I have a M2H2 van that's sign written. I don't cheat, anything that comes out of it is from my home. Backed upped by photos.

I separate everything as best I can. They see this. However they wouldn’t except sanitary from my own bathroom rip out because of my trade. I sucked it up and paid for it's disposal. Never ever ever would I ever ever fly tip.

Only priìcks fly tip.

 

[evdamadiynot]

Well the hippo bag has gone -collected at seven this morning.
Lifted from the front wall by hiab over the parked cars into very tall sided six wheeler.
The bag wasnt rigid enough and was well overfilled so it released the remains of a Little Tikes buggy onto their bonnet.
Driver duly left and I didnt see anything either.