Transparency in waste removal is important. Customers who use Only Pay What It Weighs have a clear idea of the costs involved in removing their waste items and they can be sure that anything taken is disposed of lawfully and appropriately.
Fly-tipping – neither lawful, nor appropriate disposal
That compares favourably to services run by people who provide quotes and then change their minds. Or those who dispose of waste by dropping it in the nearest unguarded, un-monitored spot. In other words, fly-tippers.
We encourage people to recycle, re-use, and repair items if at all possible, as we said in our last blog post, citing Repair Cafe’s. We can add to that another location in one of the areas we operate in, the London borough of Bromley. Bromley has a ‘Greener Cleaner Hub‘ in The Glades shopping centre, where best practice on repairing and re-using goods is shared, workshops are run, and there is equipment to use to re-purpose and repair, for example, clothing.
Bromley’s Greener Cleaner Hub contains a hidden gem: a Library Of Things. Useful household and outdoor tools and equipment are available to hire at reasonable prices. That means that you have quality items you can use, without the need to pay to own them, to have them newly manufactured, or to have to store them. Hedge trimmers, pressure washers, steam cleaners, power drills, ladders, these are a few examples of what you can borrow rather than buy.
We would love to encourage you to do all you can to have less waste! If not, remember that as part of what we do we are clearing, voluntarily, some of the fly-tipped rubbish we encounter. That was due to happen when we had our 100th paid job, but, frankly, we couldn’t wait! So, out we went, and filled one of our vans. It wasn’t just a case of ‘chuck things on board’. We cleared our chosen four or five spots, bagged up the fly-tipped rubbish just as if it was a paid job, and put the larger items on board singly, one being a discarded mattress. Properly disposing of a mattress at an approved tip costs us £10 plus VAT, but when we pick up fly-tipped rubbish, the parts that should be paid for, are paid for. “We picked up a mix of rubbish that had been dumped”, said Freddie Jacobs, Founder and Managing Director of Only Pay What It Weighs, “Electrical waste from a Wii console, plasterboard, food including rice, clothing, fox-torn bags, bin juices, and the maggots that come when waste like this is left. We took it all from the places we chose, and swept up before we went. Job done. No short cuts. This is the start of our making a difference and having a long-term impact.”
If you’d like to use a transparent waste clearance service that is making a difference, please get in touch.