Junk clearance

Are we all potential Hoarders? Posted Monday, 10 March 2014 What happens at Christmas at your house? You receive a pile of presents, mostly ornaments and things that you didn't really want. Do you keep them? Do you keep the packaging just in case? What about the Christmas cards, do you hang onto those in case you need to update your Chrsitmas card list for next year. Did you update it from last year, you probably still have those cards too. What about ... Read more

Courts to impose bigger fines for fly-tipping Posted Friday, 28 March 2014 People caught fly-tipping in England and Wales are to face the prospect of heavier fines, under new court sentencing guidelines. As well as fly-tipping, nuisance offenders whose crimes involve noise, smoke or carry a health risk will also be hit by the harsher fines. The new guidelines have been set out by the Sentencing Council. It said it wanted magistrates to make more use of the "highest levels of fines". Sentencing Council member and ... Read more

Dunstable warehouse filled with fly-tipped waste Posted Friday, 28 March 2014 Fly-tippers filled an empty warehouse with rubbish after cutting a lorry-sized hole in the wall. The Environment Agency found the household and commercial waste illegally dumped inside the warehouse in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Tracy Nash, of the Environment Agency, said: "This callous act has endangered the environment and had a costly impact for the land owner." The agency is appealing for information about the dumping of the waste. About 3,000 cubic metres (106,000 cubic ft) of waste ... Read more

Stuff gone wrong Posted Tuesday, 15 April 2014 We all need 'stuff' – but for some, the instinct for ownership goes badly wrong – so says an interesting piece in the weekly magazine New Scientist. In a 10 page special report on 'humans' ambivalent relationship with material goods' they have highlighted hoarding for special mention. With up to 1 in 20 people struggling with not being able to throw things away, to the point that their home is unusable, psychiatrist David Tolin from Yale ... Read more

Don't struggle with the old fence Posted Tuesday, 05 August 2014 So, the fence people have been. They took the old fence down and dug up all the concrete bits and left it all in a big pile at the end of the garden. Don't even try and get it into your car and take it too the dump. Even if you have a big car I wouldn't. What you will quickly discover is that it is impressively difficult to handle. You'll also find ... Read more