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How do you lot dispose of your old appliances after installing a new one as its £40 +VAT round my way to dispose of a machine down the tip?
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Here it’s free to take them to the tip for members of the public but not for tradesmen obviously. I give them to a local chap who takes them by the van load to the scrap metal merchant. It costs me nothing and he gets the scrap value. He also separates out the aluminium like pulleys and motor casings as he can get a good price for that.
the day after posting found a scrap metal bloke who hopefully is going to take them away for free so problem solved then.
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if at all possible :rolls: try and get a receipt from the person who is scrapping it. just in case you ever get a jobsworth asking” where did you get shot of those old machines” 😉
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boselecta, I used to allow a scrap man to take away my old machines and thought he was doing me a favour.Now the value of metal is so high i took about 4 w/m’s a d/w 5-6 motors and a bag of bits that i had been storing up to the scrap metal yard and got £75. Not bad if you have the room and a big enough van. To be all above board you may need a waste licence though!
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i think you will find that to be all above board, if you sell appliances you are a producer of weee and are not allowed to scrap the old one. we store the old machines until we have a few and then a firm called coopers wholesale call around with a lorry and take the lot for correct recycling free of charge, apart from refrigeration. they give you a receipt showing what was taken so you have proof that you are doing things correctly.
i still save electric motors and take to the scrap yard, about £120 a ton,
the weight soon mounts up.Re: Disposing of old appliances
Broadly agree with Bzz but make sure your ducks are in order the Environment Agency are now actively targetting us. How do I know, the two stores I manage have been checked 😆
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Get a waste licence, and if you have a van big enough dispose of them at scrapyard.Yards around here ask for licence
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Motors – I hope you have a waste management license exemption this is not scrap you are dealing with its now controlled waste 8)
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