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Get a skip and avoid fly tipping in Hertfordshire

If there is one thing that really gets up peoples noses, it's fly tipping!

Not only does fly tipping blight the Hertfordshire countryside around us, it can have a devastating effect on the wildlife that we co-exist with. Then of course there is the eye watering cost of clearing up the mess that inconsiderate people have created. We all pay the price for this ecologically unsound practice through increased council tax bills from our councils. This could all be avoided if everyone disposed of their waste in the correct manner and hiring a skip is probably the best way to go about this, particularly if you have a large amount of waste to dispose of.

What exactly is fly tipping?

To fly tip means to illegally dump waste on land that is not permitted or licensed to hold that waste. Fly tipping is a serious criminal offence that could lead to hefty fines and even a custodial sentence. Fly tipping is also very damaging and dangerous to the environment and the wild life that inhabits the area.

Recent statistics have revealed a shocking fact that there were around nine hundred thousand incidents of fly tipping in the United Kingdom over a one year period. This figure is a considerable increase from previous years, but why is this practice getting worse? Possibly the tighter regulations regarding waste disposal have something to do with it. There was a time when you could take your waste to the local landfill site and just dump it all in the same hopper. Today, you have to segregate different types of waste and put them in specific hoppers and some waste will require a special permit to carry and dispose of it. Ultimately, no matter what the reason behind the practice of fly tipping, lazyness can account for a great deal of it and sheer contempt for our surroundings must account for the rest. There simply is no excuse for this dangerous, inconsiderate and costly practice! The most common place for fly tipping to take place is usually on highways, closely followed by footpaths and alleyways.

Fly tipping affects us all!

Fly tipping is not merely a nuisance that may incur a small rise in our council tax rates, it causes pollutes the environment with harmful or poisonous substances, it puts wildlife at risk and be danger to the health of people too. On top of this, it can make a pleasant city centre or country lane alike look vile and unwelcoming.

As mentioned above, the clean up cost of fly tipping can be enormous and it has been estimated that the annual cost is nearly £45 million. You can see that a rise in Hertfordshire council tax will only scratch the surface of this problem and we can all do our bit to keep this a green and pleasant land by hiring a skip from Letchworth Skip Hire for our waste rather than disposing of it in the countryside.

Apart from disposing of your waste responsibly by using designated landfill sites or hiring a skip, reporting anyone who is committing this offence is everyones civic duty. It is usually the local council who you should report the offence to and they will be only too pleased to pursue the wrongdoers from there. Even if you don't witness who dumped the rubbish, still report it to the local authority, so they may get the wheels in motion for a clean up operation.

What to do if you discover a fly tip

If you do discover fly tipped waste materials you should write down as much detail as you can before reporting it. Always include the type of waste, the amount, the day, date, time and the exact location of the waste. Should you see someone committing the offence, it is probably best not to challenge them yourself for safety reasons, but take down vehicle details and descriptions of the offenders to pass on to the relevant authorities.

The best thing you can do to help keep the countryside looking good and keeping it a safe haven for wildlife is to dispose of youre waste responsibly. The best way to do this is to hire a skip from a reputable skip hire company. This also removes the need for you to spend hours sorting through messy rubbish and putting it into separate piles for disposal, it also does away with the need to sit for hours at the local landfill site on a Saturday morning.

Remember, fly tipping is not a minor offence like littering, it has a major effect on us and the creatures we share our planet with. When you consider that all the waste from a skip is collected and recycled responsibly, it's a bit of a no brainer when considering whether a skip is the best way to get rid of your unwanted waste materials.

Some great reasons to hire a skip from Letchworth Skip Hire

Hiring a skip saves you a lot more than just money.

We all look for a good deal these days and some people will spend day after day clearing up their household waste, making multiple trips to the Hertfordshire landfill site and they still feel that they have saved themselves the expense of hiring a skip. What they have not considered is the fuel of these multiple trips and the wear and tear on their car, not to mention the many hours spent doing it.

Hiring a skip from Letchworth Skip Hire helps save time, money, and the effort that it would require for you to dispose all your rubbish yourself. In fact, skip hire might be the easiest and most cost effective way of rubbish removal there is. Since you won't be doing anything and leaving the work to waste professionals, it will mean very little effort on your part. Then there is also the fact that you will not have to transport the rubbish to the Hertfordshire landfill site. If the prospect of putting all that rubbish in your expensive family car worries you, a hire truck is often considered, but this is still expensive and all the work must still be done by you. In fact, all you will need to do is to fill up the skip. After that, your job would have been done and all you will need to do is wait for Letchworth Skip Hire to come over and take it away, simple!

Hiring a skip is the safer option.

Packaging up all of your household waste into sacks and boxes can be potentially dangerous as well as long winded and boring. Hurting yourself is easy as any broken glass and leaking bottles included in the waste can present a definite danger to you. Hiring a skip can make the job much safer since all the handling and disposal will be the skip hire companies problem, not yours. Skip hire professionals know how to dispose the waste in a hygienic and safe manner.

Hiring a skip helps to protect the Hertfordshire environment.

One of the many rules that all skip hire companies including Letchworth Skip Hire must follow is to manage the waste they pick up in a safe and responsible way. We have to know how to dispose of it and what to with the rubbish at the waste recycling centre. With proper disposal and waste treatment, the Hertfordshire environment not only stays cleaner but also remains safer.

Hiring a skip makes building sites in Hertfordshire a safer environment to work.

Should you be having an extension done on your property, having rubble, bricks, broken glass and a host of other waste materials laying around presents a clear danger to not only the workers, but for you and your family who have to live with it. It is not practicable or safe to wait for the job to be completed before disposing of the waste, a skip keeps everything tidy during the construction process.

Letchworth Skip Hire skips come in a range of sizes.

Letchworth Skip Hire have a good selection of skip sizes at our disposal, (no pun intended) and this makes hiring them even easier as the different sizes means that the skips are suitable for all kinds of jobs. Small projects may only require a mini skip, although a large project may require a huge 40 yard roll on roll off skip. If you are unsure as to the size of skip you need, just give Letchworth Skip Hire a call and we will be happy to advise you.

If you would like to hire a skip from Letchworth Skip Hire, why not drop us a line for a chat or fill in our contact form and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Hoarding costs you money

Many hoarding behaviours can be put down to past experiences the individual has gone through. This may be periods of abject poverty, that makes them feel the need to hoard items just in case they could be used to good effect at a later stage. It is now thought that hoarding can adversely affect your finances. This may sound like a strange statement to make, but a bad financial situation is something we all want to avoid.

Time to have a good clearout

We've all been there. Our house has become a little cluttered and we feel the need to have a good tidy up. Many refer to it as a spring clean, but any time of year is a good time to de-clutter our living space. Having a good tidy up not only clears your house, it will help to clear your mind too. Research has shown that living in a cluttered environment can even have adverse effects on a person's sleep.

Fly tipping: what's the problem in Letchworth?

Illegal dumping is the proper name for fly tipping and it is typically distinguished from littering because of the type and amount of material left and the way in which it is disposed of. Fly tipping has always been a problem in Letchworth and indeed all over Hertfordshire.

The waste consequences of Covid

In an age where we are constantly looking for ways to cut down on our waste, it seems strange that so much extra waste has been created by the covid pandemic. The vast majority of this is made from plastic, so surely it could be recycled, but when one considers what it has been used for, it renders it potentially hazardous waste.

New Bill designed to ban export of plastic waste

When we throw away our waste materials, few of us know or possibly even wonder where this waste will end up. Many often believe that if it goes into the recycling bin, it will be recycled and therefore they will be doing their bit for the good of the environment. Unfortunately, a good deal of plastic waste often ends up in developing countries.

The problems with waste disposal in Letchworth

How many times have we looked at all the waste materials we have accumulated and despaired at the arduous prospect of sorting it into various types of waste to dispose of at the local tip? This once simple task has now become a major headache for many as the restrictions on what we can dispose of in landfill has increased so much in recent times.

Plastic pollution around the globe

Plastic pollution is now one of the biggest environmental concerns we have to face. You may feel that large amounts of plastic waste are unavoidable in the world we live in, but you and your family can help with the plastic pollution issue by being aware of its dangers and taking the necessary steps to reduce your plastic waste.

Carbon emissions and the environment

An awful lot has been said over the years about the damage we are doing to our environment with the carbon emissions and waste we produce. Some dispute the possibility that we are damaging our planet beyond repair, while others state quite clearly that we have very little time to change our ways and that time is running out.

How the five R's can dramatically improve our environment in Letchworth?

We have all heard of recycling our waste materials and for many years, some councils have provided special recycling bins to help residents avoid putting too much waste into landfill. But recycling is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to helping keep our environment healthy in Letchworth.

Recycle or incinerate! What is the best solution for our waste materials in Letchworth?

We are constantly being encouraged to recycle our waste materials and not putting them into landfill. However, there appears to be an emerging trend for incineration of waste in many areas, but is this a good or bad step?

Single use plastic products in Letchworth

Here at Letchworth Skip Hire we always recycle as much of your waste as possible, however, there is always more that can be done to improve the environment that we all need to survive.

A guide to what can and cannot go into a hired skip

At Letchworth Skip Hire we are frequently asked what waste materials can be placed into the hired skips we supply. So we thought it would be a good idea to offer a quick guide as to what is and is not acceptable.

Recycling your waste materials in Letchworth

Recycling is something most of us do now to some degree. Some do it more than others, but we mostly appreciate that it is an important part of our daily lives. It is more important to recycle waste in order to conserve resources and maintain a healthy environment than ever before. The question is, are we really doing everything possible when it comes to recycling our waste materials? The achances are that many of us are probably not doing all we can. So here are a few tips to help you recycle properly.

The problem with plastic pollution in Hertfordshire

Waste reduction in Hertfordshire

The country is now committed to reducing the amount of waste and the government have set targets for waste reduction. A new plan for cutting waste was published back in 2007 that aimed for at least 40 per cent of household waste to be recycled or composted by 2010, this rose to 50 per cent by 2020.

Plastic waste from the United Kingdom may be sent overseas instead of recycled

Massive amounts of packaging waste is being sent overseas to be recycled and turned into new products. However, concerns have been raised that in reality a good deal of it is being dumped in landfill sites in countries that we have no agreement with.

Just how recyclable is the plastic we use in Letchworth Skip Hire

We all know that plastic is recyclable, so as long as we put it in the correct bin it will be made into something else useful. Sadly this is a myth that all too many people believe, the painful truth is quite the opposite. We have all seen the triangular set of chasing arrows logo on plastic products and seem to automatically assume that it denotes that the product is recyclable.

What happens to all the plastic we throw out

Just where would we be without plastic? The production of plastic has exploded over the last fifty or so years, growing from 16.5 million tons in 1964 to 343 million tons in 2014; it is expected to double by 2036. The question is, where does all of this plastic go when people in Hertfordshire throw it away?

Fly tipping: A modern day curse

Fly tipping is simply another term used to describe illegal dumping of all manner of waste material, it is also called fly dumping. Whatever term is used, it is the dumping of waste illegally instead of using an authorised method such as kerbside collection or using an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, including waste dumped or tipped on a site with no licence to accept waste.

Recycled plastic for roads and pavements

Plastic use in road and pavement construction is not exactly a new concept, but it does appear to be increasing. Using plastic waste to make plastic roads is definitely on the upward trend. Plastic roads mainly use plastic carrier bags, disposable cups and PET bottles that are collected from landfill sites prior to burial and are a vital part of this construction material.

Seaweed sachets offer an alternative to plastic

Indonesia has a wealth of naturally growing seaweed that can make an edible, water permeable film that can be used in sachets that hold tea, coffee, and hot cocoa as well as a whole host of other useful daily consumable products.

The increasing problem of plastics in our oceans

The amount of plastic in the oceans of the world is predicted to treble in the next ten years unless affirmative action is taken to deal with the problem, according to a new report just published.

Plastic pollution in the ocean starts from the rivers

A scary statistic is that more than eight million tons of waste plastic ends up in the ocean every single year. If we continue to pollute our oceans at this rate, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050 and it can take many years to break down if at all, not to mention the toxins it leaches in the process.

Ways to reduce your plastic waste

Plastic is a great product in so many ways, but the environmental impact it can have is enormous, particularly when it comes to the single use plastic products we seem to uses on a daily basis in our throw away society. Can we as private individuals do to cut down our personal plastic usage?

Plastic microbeads are a load of rubbish

Would you like to fill your mouth with plastic, or cover other parts of your anatomy with it on a regular basis? The answer would most likely be a resounding no, but we are already doing just that.

Waste plastic from the UK is polluting the globe

Literally thousands of tons of plastic scrap collected for recycling from British households have been transported and dumped on sites across the world. This shocking revelation was revealed from a recent freedom of information request.

Hiring a skip from Letchworth Skip Hire rather than using the local dump

Have you got a load of rubbish to dump? Is it better to hire a skip or use the local dump? Do you need a permit for having a skip? Can anyone apply for a permit? Here are a few answers which could help you when hiring a skip from Letchworth Skip Hire

Hire a skip from Letchworth Skip Hire for your garden waste

No matter what the season, a medium sized Hertfordshire garden can generate a massive amount of waste materials. The winter will leave a lot of dead leaves and twiggs from nearby trees to clear up, and when the warmer months hit, the waste is generated on a weekly basis as things grow rapidly.

Some facts about waste and recycling from Letchworth Skip Hire

The United Kingdom produces over 100 million tonnes of waste every single year. If you consider that one tonne is about the weight of a small car, it is easy to see how it mounts up. In less than two hours, the waste we produce would fill the Albert Hall.

Hire a skip instead of going to your local Hertfordshire tip

Using a local Hertfordshire tip is not the same as it was a few years ago. These days everything has to go in the correct hopper, it cannot all go in the same one any longer. This means you have to know what goes where in order to segregate all the rubbish at home.

Hire a skip from Letchworth Skip Hire for your soil and mud

A Hertfordshire client recently hired one of our skips as they just could not believe how much earth they had to get rid of when they dug out a pond in their back garden. Our client had intended to build up their flower beds and other low spots of their garden with the excavated earth. They never thought they would need to get rid of any earth at all.

Useful information about skip hire in Hertfordshire

The one question we get asked the most at Letchworth Skip Hire is what size skip the customer will need. We always suggest that you think about what you need to dispose of and remember that two skips can be far more expensive than one larger skip. Skips are measured by the yard and range from 3 yard mini skips to roll-on roll-off containers more suitable for higher volume waste requirements.

Hire a skip from Letchworth Skip Hire to save you time effort and money

Hiring a skip from Letchworth Skip Hire is without a doubt the best way to get rid of all your waste materials! It is convenient, quick, easy and saves you a huge amount of work. Generally speaking, we only get a couple of days a week away from work, and when you end up ferrying your household waste back and forth from the local tip, your weekend soon gets swallowed up.

The benefits of skip hire from Letchworth Skip Hire in Hertfordshire

Having a good clear out of the garden shed or garage produces way more rubbish than you ever imagined possible. Decorating preparation can also produce a good deal of waste, such as old skirting boards and stripped wood chip paper that his been up since the war, so a skip is a great way to dispose of the waste.

Further Information

If you would like to know more or are interested in a quote we would be happy to help. Phone us on 0800 169 8588, email us at info@stevenageskiphire.co.uk or fill in our enquiry form and we will be in touch as soon as possible.