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Our local tip has a recycling corner Janjen, we don't use it though because rather than simply passing it on to someone who needs it the workers SELL it....often at silly prices too. 

I did get a lovely old Fisher Price toy garage from another tip last summer and after giving it a good old wash (it had actually been put on top of the pile of rubbish before the member of staff hoiked it back for me) and it's been played with at least once a day, and often more, since then.

Quote: Originally posted by Janis1 on 05/8/2010

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I just wonder what their bosses opinion would be if they found out their staff were cashing in on stuff that technically belongs to the council and doing it in what is effectively council owned time.  Someone will report them sooner or later. 

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I doubt the council would have an auction of items recovered from the tip.  These guys on the tip were keeping stuff out of landfill and making a few beer tokens into the bargain.  Everyone's a winner?

Who would be so miserable as to report that?

For some people reporting stuff is a way of life...someone will do it some day and technically it isn't there property to sell.  Not that I would do it...I have far better things to do with my time.

*she says sitting there surfing the internet while the kids run riot*

Quote: Originally posted by Janis1 on 05/8/2010

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I just wonder what their bosses opinion would be if they found out their staff were cashing in on stuff that technically belongs to the council and doing it in what is effectively council owned time.  Someone will report them sooner or later. 

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Quote: Originally posted by HEJC72 on 05/8/2010

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Sadly our local tip now REFUSE to sell you anything becuase some jobsworth decided that for H&S reasons it was no longer safe to do so??!!

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I'm a dedicated skip raker...all of the wooden edging, cold frames, pots etc on my allotment have come out of one skip or another. Though I'm now past the stage of carrying a saw in my car so I can cut down planks in situ so that they'd fit in the car...

On site I usually prop up any potentially useful items to the side of the bin area with a note saying "Free to good home" or similar. Over the years I've left a travel cot, several chairs, two pairs of outgrown rollerblades, three BBQs, many almost new  pillows (usually leave these in the laundry), old towels and outgrown kids camping clothes ditto (all washed I hasten to add!) and a pile of miscellaneous bits and bobs. If I know I won't use them again why drag them home? Usually, they've vanished within half an hour. In return I've salvaged vast quantities of tent spares and even the odd tent, a fishing rod, bits and pieces of BBQ, a lounger  and kids toys like bats, inflatables etc etc. Quite often I'll use something for the duration of my stay ...extra chairs for guests for example...then leave them on site. It's a total waste to throw good things out if the person three pitches down can use them for a week or two first.

I left a bag full of plates and bowls on a campsite last Tuesday as we had far more than we could ever need.  We just left it near the sinks/bins and hoped that someone would find them useful.  A couple of months earlier we left behind a small bbq as we could not be bothered to unscrew the thing to pack back down.  (it was cheap and flimsy but still working)  

In campsites in France (Eurocamp ones) the rep tents usually have a communal box for left over things to use while you are there.  Over the years we have made use of various floaty things, body boards, wind breaks and sun shades and bags and bags of left over bbq charcoal.  We often leave food in the fridge and cupboards too and expect that the reps will take those.  If we have made friends with other families then we will pass on things instead.  This makes sense to us and cant see why a simple left over box could not be esablished on most uk sites with receptions. 

I did see a book box at this site, but even that tends to be rare here.