Providing skip hire for Gosport allotment clear outs

TJ recently supplied 12 mixed waste skips to Gosport Borough Council over two weekends, providing assistance in their bid to get the town’s allotment sites cleared and ready for the new spring/summer season.

The clear outs took place on the weekends of 21 March and 4 April, with TJ delivering the empty skips on the Friday, and collecting them the following Monday. Skips were utilised at Brockhurst and Camden sites on 21-24 March, and at a further eight sites across Gosport on 4-7 April.

All waste was taken back to TJ’s Tipner Materials Recovery Facility – which has recently undergone extensive refurbishment – for sorting, segregating and onward recycling.

The skips were all 6 yard skips – also known as maxi skips – which are one of the most frequently hired skips. These skips can accommodate approximately 50-60 filled bin bags of waste, which makes them ideal for many projects and uses.

TJ offers versatile skip hire services throughout Hampshire and the surrounding areas including Portsmouth, Fareham, Gosport, Southampton, Chichester, Havant and Petersfield. We also offer a nationwide skip-hire service, whereby we work with our network of trusted partners to arrange the waste solution your business needs, wherever you are in the country.

Our online quoting system makes it quick and easy for customers to book a skip for the required dates and time frame. Delivery and collection dates are selected at the point of booking, with standard hire times of up to 14 days unless requested otherwise.

A 5% discount is offered to customers who book the collection date within 4 days of delivery, and there is also the option to do a ‘skip hire exchange’ whereby your full skip will be swapped for an empty one if you require a skip on-site for longer periods or for on-going projects.

Gosport has 11 allotment sites across the town, offering hundred of plots and giving many green-fingered individuals and families the opportunity to grow their own produce. 

The waste disposed of was largely green waste and gardening debris as you would expect. As much of this waste as possible was repurposed, with anything that could not be, being sent for incineration and contributing to Energy from Waste (EfW).

TJ is dedicated to diverting waste from landfill and we endeavour to recycle up to 100% of the waste we handle. We have established recycling routes for a wide range of materials from the standard card, paper, metal and plastic bottles, to the more tricky materials such as rubble, hard plastics and mattresses. TJ are always working behind the scenes to find new ways to recycle the materials that have proved difficult in the past.

TJ processes all materials 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.

This is the third time that Gosport Borough Council has utilised our services for this purpose and we hope to continue this working partnership in the future.

Find out more about TJ’s skip hire services, and about our newly refurbished Tipner Materials Recovery Facility.