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Puppies Found In Skip

Skip hire in Surrey throws up some strange things. You wonder who on earth would dump newly born puppies, let alone dump them in a skip. Luckily, these little smashers were rescued and all went to a safe home.

Remember a dog is for life, not just for Christmas, folks!

Puppy

January 10, 2010 at 8:56 am | The Skip Magazine News Stories | No comment

Tags: skip hire, Skip hire in London, skip hire surrey, Skip recycling, waste recycling

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Flushed with Pride – Floating Skips!

Pondskater Limited has dropped a floater! But they’ve nothing to be ashamed of. Far from it in fact, as the floater they’ve dropped is a revolutionary floating platform system which means SKIPS CAN NOW FLOAT!
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The great new invention enables many types of cargo to be transported in skips and containers – on the water rather than on roads. The system is built to exacting engineering standards, and is a combination of rotary moulded flotation units and clip-lock frames, enabling multiple skip loads to be transported in the one shipment. The platforms are unique as the build cost is 85% cheaper and weigh 90% less than conventional barges.
The units are quite literally floating skips and each skip can carry approx. 22 tonnes or 22 yards of materials (they lock together in groups of up to 32 units).
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This enables large amounts of waste or building materials etc to be transported without the need to block the nation’s highways. It would also be an ideal solution to the waste transportation problems an event like the Olympics in London would cause.
There has already been substantial interest shown in the prototype system which has been widely demonstrated over the last two years, and the first production unit will be launched in London in late October. The initial emphasis will be on developing the U.K. market, on the basis that most major towns in the United Kingdom have long established but under utilised waterway networks. Pondskater Ltd will then be looking towards International markets such as the introduction of the system into Dubai to service the increasing number of water based resorts there, such as Palm Island and The World.
Speaking to The Skip recently, Les Balmer of Pondskater Limited told us:
“We firmly believe that this invention will bring substantial environmental benefits and will make the transition to multi modal transportation methods, with the focus on reducing road traffic, that much easier to achieve”.

November 22, 2006 at 4:15 pm | The Skip Magazine News Stories | No comment

Tags: floating skips, pondskater

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Help Paddy Save The Orangutans

Ace contributor to The Skip magazine and Topskips customer service front-line, Paddy-Jo Malpas, explaining how she will be saving Orangutans and the rain forest of Borneo when she joins Operation Raleigh on the trip to Borneo in February 07 and how you can help by sending donations to help Operation Raleigh.

You can donate to Paddy’s fund by Credit Card or Paypal on her blog here: www.paddy-jo.blogspot.com

November 20, 2006 at 2:42 pm | The Skip Magazine News Stories | No comment

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Waste Offender Rooted Out

Jayson Stanley, a tree care company director from Wendover has been hit with an eight month prison sentence after pleading guilty to fly-tipping in Buckinghamshire.
The 37-year old was sentenced at Aylesbury Magistrates Court after admitting to illegally dumping green waste during 2004 and 2005.
Mr Stanley’s sentence was suspended for two years but he has been served with a 200 hour community punishment order, given a fine of £3,000 and ordered to pay costs of £8,000.
Waste Partnership for Buckinghamshire and the Environment Agency have been working alongside one another for the past few years to catch fly tippers in the area. Surveillance cameras were installed in Wendover in late 2003 and Acacia Tree Care vehicles were caught dumping tree waste on several occasions between January and July 2004.
Then on 31 May 2005 passer-by witnessed an Acacia truck dumping green waste along Leather Lane, Great Missenden and reported the incident to the council.
John Warder, Chairman of the waste committee for Buckinghamshire spoke of how pleased he was that the clampdown on tipping is working, “Despite a very early morning dumping in a remote area, this proved to be another fine example of the public working with the authorities to combat fly-tipping.”

November 19, 2006 at 4:10 pm | The Skip Magazine News Stories | No comment

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Jekyll and Hyde

By Dunstan Carter
“All human beings… are commingled out of good and evil.” – wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886.
Little did he know how accurate that quote would prove to be when levelled at UK workers’ attitudes to recycling and the environment in 2006.
According to a new report, commissioned by Envirowise, most workers are environmentally friendly at home but frequently waste water and paper when they are in the office.
The report also claims that firms could save up to 32 million litres of water and a billion sheets of paper every day if people were as eco-friendly at work as they are at home.
Envirowise, which promotes eco-friendly business practices, said one in three workers do nothing to cut back on the use of water or paper. A survey of almost 2,000 adults revealed that one in five recycle nothing in the office and one in seven has no idea how much paper they use every day.
The report also claims that offices across the UK are needlessly wasting around 310 million litres of water every single working day.
Electricity is also wasted, with very few offices installing energy-efficient light bulbs and with many computers being left on overnight. Inkjet cartridges are also rarely recycled – which is a global problem with more than 1.1 billion cartridges being used annually around the world.
It doesn’t take a genius to realise that all this waste is becoming a major problem and one that the UK has to address.
In her 1975 book, A Gift for God, Mother Theresa wrote, “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.”
So, WAKE UP BRITAIN, and start recycling in the workplace. You wouldn’t want to upset the ghost of Mother Theresa would you? Thought not!
This is an archived news story from “The Skip” Magazine. If you would like to know more about the magazine click on The Skip to find out how to subscribe and see what our readers think about it.

November 18, 2006 at 4:07 pm | The Skip Magazine News Stories | No comment

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“The Skip” Magazine Advertiser Testimonial

We love it when people say nice things about our skip hire industry magazine, and here’s some proof that we don’t make these testimonials up from the RWM Show in September 2006:

October 27, 2006 at 3:34 pm | The Skip Magazine News Stories | No comment

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