Handling skip waste most effectively in this day and age

So you've been staring at all the accumulated rubbish around your home and garden for far too long, the time has come for some action, but what are your options?

• Take the rubbish to the tip yourself.
• Hire a skip from a local skip hire firm.

You start off by loading all of your rubbish into the family car, taking extra care not to wreck the interior, usually failing miserably, then spend an age waiting in line at the local household waste recycling centre. When you finally get to the front, you start rushing back and forth as if your life depended on it. You have to be quick or before you know it, the car in front leaves and the ones behind start sounding their horn at you.

The operator then informs you that you can't dispose of this or that in this particular skip, it has to go in the skip at the other end of the compound. They then go on to examine exactly what is in the various black bin bags in your posession.

As if that isn't bad enough, woe betide anyone who is trying to dispose of old plaster or rubble from a DIY job as they are likely to be told that they won't accept it as it's viewed as 'trade waste'.

If you decide that hiring a skip is the best way to dispose of all your rubbish and need it placed on a road, you will need a skip permit from your local council. The requirements surrounding skip permits are detailed in the Highways Act 1980: section 139, 140 & 140a, Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984, Section 65, Builders Skip (Markings) Regulations 1984, (S.I 1984 No.1933) and the Environmental Protection Act 1990 Section 34.