Waste Carrier Licences – It’s Your Responsibility to Know
Businesses and individuals often fail to appreciate their lasting duty of care when it comes to waste. There’s a misconception that if they pay a company to take the waste away, compliance with environmental and waste management regulations becomes somebody else’s responsibility. In fact, your duty of care continues, whether you are a business or […]
What Happens to Waste that Can’t be Recycled?
As a waste management company our ambition is, one day, to see nothing at all going into landfill. For this to happen there will need to be some upstream changes to the way that goods are manufactured and packaged. In the meantime, we have a mission to make sure that as little as possible of […]
What Can and Can’t be Recycled Still Causes Confusion
Many people are confused about what can and can’t be recycled. Some of the confusion comes from the sheer range of materials we use in everyday life and some of it probably comes from the different rules councils apply for what can be put out for collection. A popular holiday destination such as the South […]
Is Waste Somebody Else’s Problem?
Faced with the colossal scale of waste sent needlessly to landfill, or the plastic choking our oceans, it’s possibly too easy to say ‘what can I do? However careful I am with sorting my waste and recycling it’s going to make very little difference.’ The problem, of course, is that too many people think like […]
Our Weighbridge Makes your Building Waste Simpler to Manage
If you don’t have enough to fill a skip, disposing of business waste, particularly if it involves building materials and hardcore, can be a nuisance. First of all, not all local authority waste recycling centres will allow trade waste. Where they do, the process of dealing with it can be time consuming. You may have […]
What Would ‘50 Trips to the Tip’ Really Cost You? The benefits of hiring a skip
Somebody once claimed that they could make 50 trips to the tip for the same cost as hiring a skip. Were they right? Let’s assume that a round trip to the waste recycling facility (to name it more accurately) is a distance of 9 miles. Somewhere like Somerset it’s quite likely significantly more than this. […]
What Does an Untidy Site Say About a Construction Company?
An overflowing skip piled high with waste is a familiar sight on many building sites. And when the skip is full more waste piles up alongside. What does this tell people about the firm doing the building work? And what happens to the waste that isn’t contained? Sections of polythene sheet or old cement bags […]
Why Do I Need to Hire a Skip? I’d Never fill it.
When many people think about skips they imagine the large, cumbersome units they see on construction sites. When it comes to their own DIY projects they can’t imagine how they would ever fill such a thing, even if they had room for one outside their house. So instead of hiring a skip they choose to […]
WELLINGTON WASTE …. WERE IN THE RACE!
All of us at Wellington Waste, want congratulate Tony and Quentin on their huge achievement! They have recently completed the Taunton Half Marathon 2018!
Are you Prepared for the Two Universal Rules of DIY Projects?
Spring seems to be the time when people finally take on those major DIY projects. Kitchens, bathrooms and other parts of the house or garden finally get that major makeover. For any DIY project there are two rules that always seem to apply. First, it will turn out to be more complicated than you imagined. […]
Plastic Waste
Plastic Waste Isn’t Waste at all, It’s a Resource It was hard not to be moved by the scenes of plastic waste choking oceans and wildlife in the recent TV series Blue Planet II. We literally cannot go on like this. We all need to take more care of how we handle plastic waste. As […]
New Website Launched!
We are proud to have launched our new website. Built and hosted on the latest content management platform, it promises a faster, more streamlined experience and includes a new and enhanced online skip hire and ordering system. Why not give it a try and book your next skip online today? With delivery and collection to […]
