Do you know anything about skips?

Question

if i hired a skip and someone else put their rubbish in it, are they breaking the law?

who do you contact if this happens?

to me its a form of fly tipping, am i right?

Answer 1

it is a civil offence, you will have to persue compensation via a court order.

The police will only get involved if it includes intimidation or harassment.

An injunction to stop them will cost you about £1K + costs, the magistrate MAY assign costs to the looser.

Answer 2

get all your rubbish on your drive in a pile, then when the skip arrives fill it while they wait and then get them to take it away. we have to do that sometimes at work in some areas, its get delivered one day and its full the next with someone else's rubbish, nothing really you can do unless you no who it was, if you do, get it out and put it on there doorstep. or if theres to much of there rubbish to move ask the skip waggon driver to empty the whole skip on there drive, probably have to slip them a drink though! lol

Answer 3

I suppose it is really.  And, put to the test, I suppose taking stuff from skips is also stealing?

You`d report it to the police - but I doubt whether they would do anything about it. They have better things to do.

Answer 4

This happens everyime someone has a Skip delivered.You have no one to complain to, or contact. Just get on with life.

Answer 5

No it's not breaking the law, but it's quite a nuisance. Try and get the skip put on your land instead of outside the gate or fill it up straight away. If you find out who put the stuff there ask for a contribution towards the cost.

Answer 6

Not breaking the law - but you could take action against them. Have your stuff ready and fill the skip before anyone can help themselves - put a cover on it helps to discourage casual tippers. I have had the experience of filling a skip on a Friday and coming back on the Monday to find the entire contents on the road next to the skip as someone had gone through to collect all the odd bits of metal to flog round the scrapyard. Moral of that story is arrange to have it collected as soon as it is full. Any freeloaders deserve a slapping, but that's just my opinion, rather than my advice.

Answer 7

Your best bet would be fill the skip up as soon as it arrives.