The end of the line for 'The King of the Skip Monkeys'

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Now as some of you are aware, I have been very lucky with my local recycling centre. It is privately run by Donarbon contracted to the local council.

Something has gone wrong at Donarbon, the paranoia has kicked in resulting in a clamp down on ALL sales.

Cameras, with numberplate recognition software, are to be installed on all of their sites within the next few months. ALL materials brought in are to be solely processed by Donarbon. No more sales by individual sites of their copper, aluminium etc. No more bric-a-brac sales, no more bikes, nothing, zero.

Anyone deemed to be using the site too often (numberplate recognition) will be reported so even if you have a large wall to take down and need 4 trips, your details will be logged.

The site manager is angry, the site owner is angry, they made their money from sales. The site made a profit and kept the employees on a good wage over and above the basic salary they were paid. All that will stop and the site managers workload will double with all the extra paper work.

Every item that comes into the site will be processed by Donarbon, bikes will be either crushed or palletised and sent to Africa, no matter what their worth. Valuable electronics will be crushed and processed.

Nothing will be re-used or recycled in an environmentally friendly way, just processed and remanufactured.

There is nothing 'green' about that. 'Re-use' is far more friendly to the environment than any so called recycling.

So, theres a few weeks left and after that, its back to car boot sales. I'll miss it but thats the way the world works.


Thinking about it its the same as the car scrappage scheme, 1000's of perfectly useable cars left to rot while they cant even be stripped for spares...

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That is bad news.
It's a huge shame that when many think of protecting the world's finite resources, they forget about the reduce and reuse part, and focus on the least environmentally friendly recycle part.

Hopefully the solution lies in everyone being much more selective and intelligent about how they dispose of their 'waste'.
 
Our local amenities tip turned like this about 6-8wks ago, absolutely zero sales now and everything, like you say, crushed or palletised :cry:

The end of recycling as we know it, it's extremely frustrating... :x

Numberplate recognition in force, so now the Galaxy get's packed to the rafters, with not a single square inch of remaining air in it, :lol:
 
Dear Mr. Cheese,
I am very sorry to hear this, as it as seems to be that to be acting 'green' is fast becoming diametrically oposed to the ideology of conservation of resources. Re-using, other than recycling, is conservation in it's purest form. But the FRC's (*pm for a definition) have litle more than limitation of litigation, and the notion that someone else *may* be profiting from their refuge, close to their hearts.
I am saddened by your loss, as I sense that it is not the recovery of the fine bicycles you parade before us not as spoils of the hunt, but as a testement, that every one you save from the land fill is another bike to be re-homed, rather than re-manufactured.
Kindest regards,
Pete.
 
our local tip went like this about a year ago

seems to be an extension of this "out with the old" policy thats prevalent
in the corporate world these days


basta*ds
 
Write to your MP. I'm not suggesting for a second it will 'do' anything but point out to the the carbon lost in processing something against that wasted in using the item again. Words like 'carbon' and 'green' can often register in even the dullest expenses obsessed mind.

I know you live towards Cambridge so I'm assuming its a blue area. Say something like, "I thought it would be the Labour lot that would be obsessed with paperwork and red tape. I'm quite shocked to see the way this government is heading on this, etc, etc."

It may lead to a question being asked. You never know.
 
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