John Griffiths, Environment Minister, has encouraged Welsh Folk to keep up their recycling efforts throughout this year. he has said the extra effort will see Wales hit and exceeding 50% recycling in the year 2012.

Recycling rates in Wales have soared from 7% in 2000/2001 to 48% between April to June 2011. According to Griffiths. Recycling rates are currently higher in Wales than in any other country within the UK.

Griffiths said “The Welsh public and Welsh local authorities should be very proud of the progress they have made in increasing recycling rates to date, particularly as we are currently recycling a higher percentage of our waste than any other part of the UK.”

Great news for skip hire Wales; especially if you use topskips.com as we have an average recycle rate of 97%!

Bridlington Council is requesting that smaller businesses are able to dispose of their waste for free.
In a statement a local councilor said “It’s costing the council more to go round and pick all this rubbish than what it would be to let them go free.”
It’s estimated that around £100,000 in this council alone is spent on cleaning up tippers waste per year meaning tax payers money is going directly toward keeping our streets clean.

Fly-tipping (also known as ‘fly dumping’, and sometimes shortened to ‘tipping’) is a British term for dumping waste illegally instead of at an authorised rubbish dump. It is the illegal deposit of any waste onto land, i.e. waste dumped or tipped on to a site which has no official skip licence to accept waste.

The term is derived from the verb ‘tip’, meaning ‘to throw out of a vehicle’ and on the ‘fly’, meaning “on the wing” which is to throw away carelessly or casually

A US company is to begin supplying automated phone recycling throughout the United States during 2012 and at Topskips we don’t just provide mini skip hire, midi skip hire and any skip sizes to any area of the UK, we also love to bring you the latest recycling and skip hire news.

The new recycling machine only available in America enables a person to choose their particular mobile handset from the huge list allowing the customer to then put their old handset into the phone recycling machine which then pays out it’s value there and then. The recycling machine will also take old MP3 players, mini disc and CD players.

The US company say that the machine will help towards the larger global problem of recycling this type of technology which becomes obsolete very quickly in the fast-paced home technology market.

If you need skip hire in Manchester or in fact anywhere in the UK there is no better place for you to be than our skip hire website which is packed with information, size guides, prices and pretty much all information you may need.

We are the people who are absolutely passionate about skips and providing the best skip hire service possible to all corners of the UK.

Known in the skip hire industry for :

• giving the best advice
• being on time
• providing great value
• friendly and approachable

We are that dedicated skip hire crew!

We sort all commercial and domestic skip hire needs across the country from London, Scotland, Wales, Devon, Birmingham to skip hire Manchester and any town that springs to mind in the UK.

Publishing the industries first and only Skip Hire magazine we have our finger on the button of the nation when it comes to skip hire and recycling news; there’s nothing we don’t know about skip hire in the UK!

Coffin of John ‘Butch’ Nash was towed through his home town on a skip lorry

John’s coffin was paraded via a skip lorry as it weaved its’ way through the streets of Portland in Dorset in December 2011.

Mr John Nash, who was 64 years old was also known as “Butch” and was the founder of a skip hire company in Dorset since 1997 and was known to be exceptionally generous by donating tens of thousands of pounds to many local charities.

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Skip hire is easy and straightforward with Topskips; all our prices, sizes and locations are viewable on our website.

Skip hire can mean that a skip permit from the local council may be necessary to acquire and we are able to organise any permits required by a customer ordering easy skip hire anywhere in the country with us.

In fact when it comes to skip hire there is little we don’t know and we have a helpful team of skip hire agents available on the end of a telephone to answer any skip questions and take any skip hire booking.

With locations in all areas throughout the UK, it doesn’t matter where you live in the country we can arrange skip hire from all UK locations, fast and trouble-free.

Skip sizes and deciding what is best for the job is made simple with Topskips and we have videos and illustrations using metric and imperial measurements and bin bag comparisons to clearly show the complete dimensions.

Our skip sizes range across the spectrum and we can supply any standard skip sizes required from any area in the UK.

Skips are deployed in timely manner from our network of depots which cover all key areas across the country.

We love Essex, it’s official. Not only do they know how to party, expertly apply a vajazzle and have beautiful countryside, they are the busiest county outside Greater London for Topskips. We don’t know why, but Essex skip hire is unceasingly popular. Maybe it’s the all those nightclubs, all that shopping, and all the good times that contribute toward the amount of waste produced, but we’re not complaining! Keep it up Essex, we’ve plenty more skips!

Happy new year from everyone at Topskips. Here’s to a successful, happy and healthy 2012!

Have a lovely day, and for those of you who can take the time off – a well deserved rest!

Thanks to all our past, present and future topskips.com customers… we are very grateful for your support.