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Van owners, have you been refused access to recycling tips?

Councils across Hampshire are stopping van owners and cars with large trailers from dumping household rubbish in their amenity tips. As a volunteer, working within 3 different scout groups, my job was to organise jumble sales and fetes to fund the groups. Councils are obviously not aware that jumble sales, etc., accumulate a load of unwanted goods which have to be disposed of; charity shops will only accept a certain amount from us (mainly clothing) but the rest goes into the scout van & trailer to be taken to the amenity tip. Now we can't! We had to take the last lot to the landfill site 9 miles away and then pay for the privilege of dumping it - kissing goodbye to all the proceeds we made from the jumble sale. Many volunteers helped to get that jumble sale organised, collecting door to door, and actual event. Items that could well have been put in the householders own rubbish bins and collected for free. - No more jumble sales, thanks to HCC. Community charge? Why are we paying it?

Public Comments

1. you are now entering the real world mate