So true lawnmowerman. I keep an old oil tank for scrap metal and when I have enough call in a skip. I'm pretty careful that nothing but metal goes in there. BUT, the last two skips have incurred a hefty separation charge (ship man has to take it back and sort it) because, in the last instance, some of the empty tins in there had had paint in them. On the previous occassion, I's put a washing machine in the skip. Here, they both go in the same crusher, but they wouldn't accept it at the depot because scrap metal went one end of their yard and washing machines the other.
This depot used to fragment everything after stripping the cars completely with no fuss but the contract got awarded to someone else who now squash the cars - complete with petrol, oil, furnishing, spare wheels etc ... (remember these guys won't accept a tyre on a rim!). And, unlike the previous firm, they don't salvage any parts. And they call this progress and environmentally superior! Getting rid of waste oil is a nightmare now as well, whereas before you dropped off your full cans at a yard that was open 24/7. So now I burn my oil and most of the rest of my stuff bypasses the 'helpful' depot.
These are the environmental destroyers, not the flytippers. The oil issue has become so onerous now that I know some larger developments ask their digger driver to 'go a bit deeper' and then they chuck in a 40gal drum of old oil. Why are they making it so difficult for us to act responsibly?
