johnnychips
Established Member
How is your tip? I probably should say recycling centre, but you know what I mean.
I’ve produced a lot of waste recently, because of moving from a house to a flat, and doing up another house. This involves the authorities of Sheffield and Doncaster MBCs, neither of which closed during the lockdown. They have introduced social distancing by not letting more than two to four cars in at a time, depending on how big the facility is, and in Donny they have restricted the items you can dump to garden waste, building rubble, wood, general waste and scrap metal - so no fridges or toasters. In Sheffield they ask your postcode and take the registration number and say you can’t visit more than once a day; in Donny they don’t.
I find if you choose late afternoon midweek, the queues are short, but you still might have to wait about fifteen minutes; and in Donny they are open till seven.
I opened this thread because firstly I saw news reports from Birmingham, where they did close during the lockdown, of horrendous queues on reopening; and secondly because someone on another thread said their authority had introduced a booking system, and I didn’t want to send the thread off-topic.
Credit to Doncaster MBC for keeping it going, as well as their ‘pay £35 and we will pick up 7 large items’ scheme like beds and settees etc. during the lockdown. I am sure this has reduced the incidence of flytipping.
I’ve produced a lot of waste recently, because of moving from a house to a flat, and doing up another house. This involves the authorities of Sheffield and Doncaster MBCs, neither of which closed during the lockdown. They have introduced social distancing by not letting more than two to four cars in at a time, depending on how big the facility is, and in Donny they have restricted the items you can dump to garden waste, building rubble, wood, general waste and scrap metal - so no fridges or toasters. In Sheffield they ask your postcode and take the registration number and say you can’t visit more than once a day; in Donny they don’t.
I find if you choose late afternoon midweek, the queues are short, but you still might have to wait about fifteen minutes; and in Donny they are open till seven.
I opened this thread because firstly I saw news reports from Birmingham, where they did close during the lockdown, of horrendous queues on reopening; and secondly because someone on another thread said their authority had introduced a booking system, and I didn’t want to send the thread off-topic.
Credit to Doncaster MBC for keeping it going, as well as their ‘pay £35 and we will pick up 7 large items’ scheme like beds and settees etc. during the lockdown. I am sure this has reduced the incidence of flytipping.
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