Off Topic Things that aren't worth a new thread ...

You would think it wouldn’t matter how many trips you make if you are getting rid of rubbish , I take loads to the tip for old lasses who haven’t got a car, the bus service is s hit round here, some villages only have one bus a day, how do they expect them to get rubbish to the tip.
Now you are only allowed 4 bags of rubble and then you pay £2.50 each for any extra bags.
Then they wonder why our country roads are piled high with crap and they pay millions out a year to get it taken to the tip

 

Exactly, it's just another stupid and unnecessary change to something that works.

 

The local council here introduced the online booking system during covid but then kept it as it probably put a lot off people going.
It certainly has reduced the number of people popping over from bordering counties to use our tip
Residents are only allowed 4 visits in a month, oh and it costs £3.20 for each 25L bag after you've used your 100L bag allowance.
I prefer it now, as the queues are non existent but I'm not sure that it helps with fly tipping, in fact I'm pretty sure that it costs more for the council to clean up after them.

 

When local tips were opened I thought they would be grateful for any thing. My nearest is a few miles down the road so I went there, he asked me my address and said you can’t use this one you live in the South Lakes you have to take it there, even though it’s miles away.
That’s when I knew it wasn’t really to cut waste mileage down just another box ticked.

 

We just phone up, book an appointment and they collect it from the house, albeit might be a few weeks later. 7 x big bags. No charge. Allowed 4 of these before you start getting charged.

 

I am in same boat , got my rubbish, 2 daughters, brother who's had a stroke and occasionally some old people my wife helps, normally give their address if going to many times in a short period of time, all Sunderland.

 

I am not even sure if ours let you take other people’s in, I thought there could be a business earner there for someone to set up, but then you have to have a license! so people round here just give it to anyone to take as they can’t get it in and they just dump it on the country roads.
They literally just drive up a country road and lift the back of the flat bed and keep driving. I have a road near me that’s blocked most of the time with rubbish.

 

They came up with a similar idea here, it failed miserably.
you can imagine you are working north Lancashire but they make the lad working to go and weigh his van which is about 15 miles away then go and do the job drive back to get the van weighed again and then go to the tip.
So to take a bag of rubbish to the tip ends up costing about £75.
Hello country lane.

 

I used to have a garage in a block, one day I found a load of rubbish had been dumped at the end, they had also filled up an empty garage with old tyres and asbestos

 

You just give your address and car reg mainly

 

I’m talking about if you go in with a van.
If you haven’t got a car

 

Seen plenty of vans in there. Not sure if they are allowed min amount of trips a month

 

We are 4 a month, the problem is going to a weigh bridge before and after each job, can double the bill.

 

And people wonder why there is so much fly tipping, if political class had half a brain they would be dangerous

 

You have to do that in South Tyneside. My son asked me to take some stuff to the tip and he needed my car reg to create an appointment.

You can just turn up at County Durham tips, but there's often a queue.

 

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Australia's social media ban for children has left big tech scrambling

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce86381p70eo

… Various governments, from the state of Utah to the European Union, have been experimenting with limiting children's use of social media.

But the most radical step so far is set to unfold in Australia - a ban for under-16s that kicks in on 10th December has left tech companies scrambling.

Many of the social media firms affected have spent a year loudly protesting against the new law, which requires them to take "reasonable steps" to keep underage users from having accounts on their platforms.

They have claimed that this ban actually risks making children less safe, argued that it impinges on their rights, and repeatedly pointed to the questions around the tech that will be used to enforce the policy.

"Australia is engaged in blanket censorship that will make its youth less informed, less connected, and less equipped to navigate the spaces that they will be expected to understand as adults," said Paul Taske from NetChoice, a trade group representing several big tech companies.

The worry inside the industry is that Australia's ban - the first of its kind - may inspire other countries.

"It could become a proof of concept that gains traction around the world," says Nate Fast, a professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business…

 

well done Australia. I really hope it does catch on around the world

About time someone grew a backbone and took a stand against these greedy ****ing parasites.

 

Why don’t parents, you know the ones in charge of their children just ban them for using social media or is it someone else's job nowadays

 

Yep, its that simple mate. Parents unable/unwilling to take responsibility for their kids wellbeing.