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There are certain types of waste which must not be put into your hired skip UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, for a number of reasons. Electrical Waste and electronic equipment is controlled by the WEEE Regulations and most Skip Hire companies can organise a convenient collection for you. Plasterboard can no longer go into regular skips as they are generally bound for a landfill and the gypsum reacts with the methane to create hydrogen sulphide which is highly poisonous. It can now however be recycled. If your skip contains asbestos, the entire skip will be treated as contaminated hazardous waste. You will also pay a lot more for disposal costs and risk a fine. However, Skip Hire UK can organise a convenient, separate collection for you and ensure it is treated in a compliant manner. Most fridges contain CFC gases, which mean they need to be treated carefully and disposed of in a certain way. This means keeping them separately, though again, skip hire can organise a convenient collection for you. Batteries often contain a corrosive chemical that can cause burns - as well as toxic heavy metals like cadmium. There are usually places in supermarkets and shops that have little bins (for use of the general public) for dead batteries to go to be recycled rather than throwing them into your skip. Tyre mountains used to be a common sight all over Britain as they are banned from landfills. These days most types of rubber can be recycled, used in rubberized asphalt for road-building for example, so Skip Hire UK will organise a collection for you. Gas cylinders and pressurized containers are an obvious one, please, never ever put any of these into skips. Any leftover paint you might have needs to be disposed of in a specific way, and we can arrange for someone to come and do that for you. Fluorescent lights and tubes contain a small amount of mercury, enough to pollute an Olympic sized swimming pool, which is obviously dangerous to both people and the environment. This small amount of mercury can be collected and recycled though, which is why Skip Hire UK can help you with this. Liquids of any description is another obvious one, if one of our workers ends up having to fish something out of the skip, we don’t want them sticking their hand into some kind of acid or other. Liquids of this kind can also cause damage to the skip, which you may then have to pay for.
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