Recycling yard waste

[Jessey]

I seem to accumulate a bunch of plastic waste, feed bags, haylage wrap, baler twine, broken buckets etc. etc., I don't have bin collection from the yard so I take home my general rubbish and put it in my household waste bin, but I seem to have accumulated a big old pile of other stuff, do you recycle yours? take it to the dump.....now known as household waste recycling centers in this area and they are very strict on what you can dispose of? do something else with it?
ETA I think maybe we have discussed this before but I can't find it in a search

 

[Bodshi]

We take everything to the recycling site, but ours are very good and the staff will come and help empty your car and take everything to the correct place if they're not too busy. Downside is that once we were clearing out a property that we rent and the tenants had left a cardboard box full of porn video cases - no videos, just the cases. I put them in a black bin liner to throw in the non-recyclable skip, but the guy at the tip took the bag off me and started pulling out the contents. We drove away pretty quickly and it was quite some time before we went back to that particular site.

The amount of plastic and non-degradable waste that comes from horse and farm products is scary isn't it - baling twine, plastic wrappers, polythene shavings bags, carrot nets - everything seems to be plastic.

 

[Jessey]

The amount of plastic and non-degradable waste that comes from horse and farm products is scary isn't it - baling twine, plastic wrappers, polythene shavings bags, carrot nets - everything seems to be plastic.

Yep and even the stuff that did come in paper bags now seems to be switching to plastic (speedibeet was the last one I noticed) I'm going to start pestering my local feed store (manufacturer) to offer a bring your own container option, it will probably take years to convince him though I saw they have new compostable haylage wrap now, hopefully that catches on quickly.

 

[Huggy]

The plastic feed bags are brilliant for garden waste. I asked around my friends and neighbours if anyone needed them, and got rid of a fair few. The other stuff, I try to decent it bit by bit into my normal bin bags for collection. If council tips, and the local councils would get their act together (here, anyway) it would mean everyone would recycle more.

 

[Jessey]

The plastic feed bags are brilliant for garden waste. I asked around my friends and neighbours if anyone needed them, and got rid of a fair few.

That's a great idea, i bet if I put them on the town FB page as rubble/garden waste sacks people would take some the only down side is other horse folk would catch on pretty quick lol

 

[chunky monkey]

Our town has a recycling waste collection service and they have provided the bins for us for the various. We live on a narrow country lane and they stopped bringing the dustcart up years ago as the road got overgrown and a few wing mirrors got knocked. Now they do our road and a number of others in the outlying district with a small 3.5 tonne wagon.
We watched them put all the seperated waste from the boxes back in together in a welli bin on there wagon. We questioned them about it and the guy said he cant sort as he doesnt have time to sort it. He is told to just go out and collect it. The council refuge department is in crisis and thry are very understaffed as well.
We have signed up to a farm collection services (you pay a fee to register). They will come out to you to collect when you have a quantity. I think if they collect you have to pay an additional fee. Or you can take the stuff to there collection centre. We only signed up last year as we ended up turning the hay into silage for the cattle the year before so had lots of plastic wrap. It must be cleanish and dry. So we use to hang the wraps over a bale string in the shed to dry each day. Then fold up to put in a builders bag. They charge you on weight so in your best interest to be dry. We put out mineral buckets for the cows and we get through about 4 a week at this time of year. So we accumulate a lot. Again we just collect them up, but they must be relatively clean plastics so they can recycle. We also have another builders bag which is full of bale strings. Weve tried to extract as much bits of hay off as possible.
We have a load sitting on a trailer now to be taken to there collect centre but we havent got round to taking it yet. Theres also another pile accumilating in the shed.
Some of the plastic feed bags we get the sheep food i fill with odd bits of rubbish and i confess we burn it. But its not just a pile of plastics on a bonfire. We usually store it up and use it for fire lighting when we have garden rubbish or hedge cutting. We try not to burn too much plastic but they are useful for getting the bonfire to burn if you have a load of wet garden rubbish.

 

[Skib]

My OH drives regularly to the only rubbish dump in our borough. It is a longish drive through London traffic. There is always a queue of cars but it moves fast. The bays and skips are well marked for what goes where - garden waste, metal, fabrics, wood etc. And the guys there will advise - tho ours dont help.
Hazardous rubbish including some old oil paint has to be picked up from ones home and there is sometimes a fee.

 

[Huggy]

My biggest headache is old rugs. I used to keep them to cut patches for rugs with tears, but it's got silly now - I still have 2 olde worlde new Zealand rugs. I've already cut up a 3rd one I had, to wrap round the barbed wire fence when Hogan came. (That actually worked really well!) They're all in too bad a state to sell, as Ramsey was a rug ripper and there's more patch than rug!

 

[Jessey]

My biggest headache is old rugs. I used to keep them to cut patches for rugs with tears, but it's got silly now - I still have 2 olde worlde new Zealand rugs. I've already cut up a 3rd one I had, to wrap round the barbed wire fence when Hogan came. (That actually worked really well!) They're all in too bad a state to sell, as Ramsey was a rug ripper and there's more patch than rug!

With old rugs I tend to cut off the useful bits (leg straps, clips etc.) and a couple of good size patches and burn the rest.