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    I wonder if anyone could start up a service, call it 'SkipBusters'.

    Where you get into the skip, remove whats recycleable & restack the rest of the waste so they can fit more waste in the bin.
    That'd save them a few $$ & give them more space to dump more rubbish in.



    I know I got into a full waste bin once, from a shop refit, ended up with heaps of 150watt Metal halide bulbs & ballasts, flouro transformers, copper wire, wood & metal & odd stuff.

    I sorted & repiled it all, gave the bin 'hungry sides' & by then it was only 1/3rd full.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eesakiwi View Post
    I wonder if anyone could start up a service, call it 'SkipBusters'.

    Where you get into the skip, remove whats recycleable & restack the rest of the waste so they can fit more waste in the bin.
    That'd save them a few $$ & give them more space to dump more rubbish in.

    I know I got into a full waste bin once, from a shop refit, ended up with heaps of 150watt Metal halide bulbs & ballasts, flouro transformers, copper wire, wood & metal & odd stuff.

    I sorted & repiled it all, gave the bin 'hungry sides' & by then it was only 1/3rd full.

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    Quote Originally Posted by injunjoe View Post
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    If its a 'Service' you can get permission to get in there, get the keys to the dumpsters & save the owners $$ while you get first & only access to the rubbish.

    'Hungry sides', sliding sheets of waste vertically down the sides of the skip to increase the amount of waste that can be put in the skip.
    Stops stuff sliding off the top of the skip when its in transport too.

    I did a few skips like that for a while, got lots of metal halide bulbs & ballasts, flouro ballasts, mirrors, copper cable, metal shelving & odd metal, fiberglass (rockwool) insulation (heaps & heaps of it) wood offcuts, partly full contact glue tubes, TV's, plumbing, etc etc.
    Most of the time the skip was over full & afterwards it was 1/2 empty.

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