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TJ Waste has secured a contract extension to continue providing waste management services for Gosport’s Community Skip Service, which was launched in May 2023. The scheme involves the provision of skips to local neighbourhoods in the borough, enabling residents to dispose of bulky household rubbish safely and responsibly.
TJ’s contract has been extended until October 2024. This initiative aims to give residents a convenient waste disposal option and to deter people from fly-tipping. In recent years fly-tipping has increased substantially. The Countryside Alliance reported a 300% rise in fly tipping in some areas of the UK following the closure of Household Waste Recycling Centres during the initial Covid lockdown periods.
Thankfully fly-tipping stats have fallen a little since then; for the 2021/22 year, local authorities in England dealt with 1.09 million fly-tipping incidents, a decrease of 4% from 2020/21. The percentage of fly-tips involving household waste fell in 2021/22 too, dropping from 65% to 61%.
The scheme is managed by Gosport Borough Council, who organise events regularly throughout the Borough. These events are designed to make waste disposal more accessible for residents and to keep the local communities cleaner.
Skips are placed in key locations around Gosport, with residents being invited to bring along their household waste and unwanted items for disposal. Upcoming events include:
6 July – Privett Park Car Park
20 July – White’s Place Car Park
3 August – Green Lane Car Park
17 August – Walpole Park Car Park
TJ supplies the skips for the events, utilising our vast stock of skips, which are ideal for this type of disposal. Our fleet of skip lorries and accompanying drivers deliver a number of skips to the event location the day before and collect and remove them as they become full. We then organise for more skips to be delivered as and when needed depending on demand.
Five TJ staff work at each event, managing people/car traffic to ensure the day runs smoothly and supporting the correct use of each skip (assisting with direction/guidance).
All the waste collected is transported to our Portsmouth Materials Recovery Facility for sorting, segregating and onward recycling. We’re dedicated to diverting as much waste as possible from landfill and endeavour to recycle up to 100% of the waste we handle.
We process all waste in line with WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme) protocol. WRAP’s mission is to accelerate the move to a sustainable, resource-efficient economy by re-inventing how we design, produce and sell products, re-thinking how we use and consume products, and re-defining what is possible through reuse and recycling.
These events have been subcontracted to us in their entirety meaning that we are supplying the skips, the vehicles, our staff to man the events and our insurance to cover them. This all-in-one service is just one of the many versatile service options that fall under our comprehensive waste management services offering.
Many different waste types are welcomed at these events, including a number of traditionally tricky items to dispose of such as POPs (unwanted sofas, armchairs and upholstered furniture), mattresses, WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) and rubble. Other items permitted include:
Items not accepted include:
Find out more about fly-tipping incidents we’ve assisted with, and about the waste management services we offer…
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