Marvellous! We have similar tubs, which we use for gardening and which have had similar breakages. I would never have thought of repairing them like that. Thank you.

I am not sure about the policy of paying to take things to the recycling centre. Wouldn't that encourage fly tipping? Sorry, I forgot - you are in Switzerland. :-)

Chris Pearson said:

I am not sure about the policy of paying to take things to the recycling centre. Wouldn't that encourage fly tipping?

Don't get me started! Here in Cornwall there are certain items that need to be paid for, and yes it does seem to encourage fly tipping of those items.

On the bright side though, there's another thread on here about Repair Cafes, and I was really pleased to find that in Cornwall these are actively promoted by the council recycling team in order to move items from recycling to reuse (or rather continued use). They were extremely helpful in supporting us to get ours set up.

Meanwhile I'm steeling myself up for the expensive trip to the dump for the various car (or rather trailer) tyres collected over many years that I keep meaning to get rid of...

Cheers,

Andy

Chris Pearson said:

I am not sure about the policy of paying to take things to the recycling centre. Wouldn't that encourage fly tipping?

Don't get me started! Here in Cornwall there are certain items that need to be paid for, and yes it does seem to encourage fly tipping of those items.

On the bright side though, there's another thread on here about Repair Cafes, and I was really pleased to find that in Cornwall these are actively promoted by the council recycling team in order to move items from recycling to reuse (or rather continued use). They were extremely helpful in supporting us to get ours set up.

Meanwhile I'm steeling myself up for the expensive trip to the dump for the various car (or rather trailer) tyres collected over many years that I keep meaning to get rid of...

Cheers,

Andy

Wait a few months, and those charges may go away.  The government has promised to abolish charges for dumping domestic waste.  I have a couple of sacks of rubble I need to get rid of.

oh yes, I'd missed that, thanks for the tip:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/council-diy-waste-charges-abolished

It'll be interesting to see what that covers.

I was interested to see the comment in there on "DIY waste", I've been clearing out 50 year's worth(!) of old electronics hobby projects into the WEEE bin over the last couple of years, and I've kept imagining that eventually someone's going to tap me on the shoulder asking me to explain why I'm disposing of what looks like industrial waste at the domestic recycling centre!