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This is a hastily added page on what is supposed to be a waste management policy. Should you come across any of the policies published by the council, you will probably read how keen it is to safeguard the environment by cutting traffic in the city centre and generating heat for council properties by incinerating  household waste. Fine, no problems there, it seems a good idea, however it seems that it's policies on other waste management isn't so good. Take for example the 'dumpit' sites that the council has contracted out, although apparently efficient these sites will not take certain kinds of waste. Should you try to dispose of a car tyre or a wheel with a tyre still fitted to it you will be turned away, the wheel rim without the tyre is fine - the site contractors can sell that as scrap metal. On contacting the council to ask as to what should be done with such waste as car wheels their answer is "take it to a tyre dealer who will remove the tyre from the rim, they will dispose of the tyre (for a sum!), then take the rim to the 'dumpit' site".

Well I think this stinks! How can 'dumpit' site contractors pick and choose what they will and won't accept - let's face it we're not taking about toxic waste here. The knock on effect of this policy has been a vast increase in the incidences of 'fly tipping'. Just keep your eyes open when driving around, there's definitely an increase in the number of wheels/tyres being dumped at the site of our roads. For example - on the road that runs through Beighton and across the railway lines, behind the trees/bushes there's an enormous amount of tyres being dumped there. If you contact the council about such matters they only tell you there's little that can be done because of a lack of funds to catch such people, maybe they should look at their policies which encourage such dumping!