Bazj Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 I had the need to go to Gatewarth tip earlier today to dispose of some excess rubbish. I duly put the old clothes, cardboard, glass and such like in their respective recepticles and then went to dispose of some bags of general rubbish. To my suprise there were 4 of the guys in Hi Viz orange jackets who work there pulling black bin sacks out of the skips and ripping them open to go through the rubbish therein. On lad had a few CD's and phone charger on the side ready to take away and probably sell on EBay. Now my question is this, are they allowed to go through bags like this once they have been disopsed of? as surely there could be all sorts of things that people have deliberately put into black bags to be discreetly disposed of. Things like old undies and photos etc.... I felt a little uncomfortable by it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Isn't this called "re-cycling"?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inky pete Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 I'm sure I'd heard that the guys at Woolston tip pay the council a serious amount of money for the privilege of running the place, and then try and make it back from what they can salvage. I think there was even a TV programme about them a couple of years ago. As obs says, that's recycling for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 Bit like these third world Countries, where the lower castes live off the rubbish tips! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 I'd be happy for any tip worker to look through my rubbish and retrieve anything that they thought was worth recycling (although I usually seperate it in the first place ). Can't say I'd particularly want to do a similar thing myself just incase I came across your undies BazJ. .... and WHY would you throw old photo's on the tip As kids many of our bikes etc came from the local tip thanks to a very friendly and thoughtful tip worker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 ... and just think of all those NHS medical records you could go through, or the seemy data discarded by the RAF?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted May 27, 2009 Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 One man's rubbish, is another man's gold. Where there's muck, there's money. Is it any different to going to the scrap yard for a bit for an old banger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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