International Plastic Bag Free Day is held every year on 3 July. This is part of an initiative to eliminate plastic bags on a worldwide basis. The average length of use of a plastic bag is 25 minutes, but once thrown away, plastic bags do not decompose easily. They can stick around for between […]
Cleaning up your garden for the summer is one thing, disposing of all that garden waste is another. But there is a highly convenient way of disposing of your garden waste: put it in a skip. […]
These days, the world is more and more concerned with environmental issues. And quite rightly so we say! We only have one planet; if we don’t start preserving it for future generations, then the human race could be extinct and the planet uninhabitable. OK, admittedly, that’s the long term dystopian projection. But, even in the […]
It’s a question we get asked a lot by our domestic skip hire customers; where can I keep a skip? And it makes sense; you’re hiring something huge to be delivered to your home; where are you going to keep it for the few days – or in some cases weeks – that it’s […]
Choosing a skip to hire can be a complicated business. For one thing, there are so many different sizes. Asking yourself ‘what size skip should I get?’ might be the first thing you do, but answering that question is not simple. Obviously, you want to get a skip that’s big enough for the job you’re […]
Here at The Waste Group, we’ve had skips returned to us with all sorts of stuff in them! If you’re interested in some of the weirdest ones, you can check out last week’s blog post. However, people are often asking us for a list of what can and can’t be disposed of in a […]
You know the saying “where there’s muck, there’s brass”?! Well, here at The Waste Group, we find that this is very rarely true. Sometimes, however, we find some strange things in our skips. We hire skips out every day and we usually see the same waste coming back; mostly construction waste or household waste. […]
The Coronavirus crisis in the UK has brought about many changes to everyday life and many businesses have had to adapt the way they are working. As such, a lot of our customers have been asking can I still hire a skip in the current climate? The short answer is yes, it’s still OK […]
Due to the recent outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), The Waste Group has had to adapt its operations. As part of the government social distancing measure, we have had to shut our recycling facility and only a small number of skip lorries will be operational. Please be assured, though, that we remain open for the […]
We have all probably hired a skip before, either because of a house move, building work or garden work and one of the first questions we asked was, how much does it cost to hire a skip? […]
Hiring a skip is a relatively straight forward process. But if you have never hired a skip before, you may be unsure about how to go about it. […]
If you’ve never hired a skip before, it can seem like a daunting task. There are lots of different thoughts that might race through your mind – where can I get ahold of one? How can I arrange delivery and pickup? What happens to the waste once it goes into the skip? It can be […]
