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!

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

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.”

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!
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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:

‘Every Loser Wins’ sang Nick Berry in the mid 1980’s. And for Burnley FC, losers in the 1988 Sherpa Van Trophy Final, that phrase was never truer as they picked up their runners up medals on that fateful Spring day.
One member of the team however, lost his medal and he’s never tried to get it back.
How does The Skip know this? I hear you holler!
Well, six years ago, Ivor Ball, a retired scrap metal worker from Rochdale, found the missing medal in a skip and after years of doing very little about it has recently launched a public appeal to track the owner down.
Ten of the original twelve players who played on that day have been contacted and are all say they still have their medals; as does the manager at the time, Brian Miller. This leaves only the captain, Ray Deakin or utility player, Shaun McGrory as the medal’s rightful owner.
Burnley lost the final 2-0 to Wolverhampton Wanderers 18 years ago but the day is still remembered fondly by Burnley fans as the intervening years have been very barren on the medals front. The medal has also been verified by the FA so there’s no chance that it’s a copy or a fake.
Sarah Meakin, a spokesperson for Burnley FC has said the medal will end up in a memorabilia museum if it remains unclaimed.
So, Mr Deakin and Mr McGrory, if you’re reading this article and you’re eager to get the medal back so that you can brag about it to your kids or bore your mates with your loser medal stories down the pub, get in touch with us.
Losing is nothing to be ashamed of boys!

The tranquil scenery of Orton Woods is a place where many a rambler goes to enjoy the view and the last place on earth where you would expect a great, big, dirty skip. Yet disgusted walker, Keith Smith came across a builders skip blocking his way when out for his daily morning walk.
Not only was the skip dumped near the local beauty spot of Snowdrop Corner, it had also been filled with cement which had set, making it impossible for the skip to be moved.
Mr Smith said: “This is another example of an act of vandalism against the countryside and another cost to the taxpayers of Peterborough for its clearance.”
The sight has been made ever worse by the fact that huge vehicle tyre marks have damaged the area.
Distraught ramblers have tried to contact the Peterborough council, but they are denying all knowledge of being informed of this atrocity.
Peterborough City Council’s community safety manager Christine Graham said: “Now we are aware of this issue, our officers have been down to the footpath to assess the problem and we will remove the skip as soon as we can.”

David Lewis a postman from Ystradgynlais in Powys has been found guilty of stashing over 40,000 letters in one of the biggest cases of undelivered mail Britain has ever seen.
David Lewis’s lethargy was only discovered after he decided to move house and decided to dump the mail in recycling skips.
Workers at the local recycling facility became suspicious when they spotted the envelopes and junk mail and informed bosses.
The Royal Mail investigated and Lewis, 53, confessed to destroying and trying to destroy the stash.
The former postman, has been jailed for four months after pleading guilty at Neath Magistrates’ Court to damaging around 100 postal packets by setting fire to them and attempting to destroy up to 40,000 more by putting them in skips to be recycled.
James Pearn, defending Lewis, said, “Throughout the whole offence, Mr Lewis did not deliberately fail to deliver addressed mail, was not deliberately hiding mail and was not deliberately storing mail.”
He informed the court that Lewis left surplus door-to-door mail in his van and this built up while he was on the sick – for six weeks when he broke his ribs and for 20 weeks when he had a hernia.
“On those occasions addressed mail he assumed, wrongly, had been dealt with while he was away from work but sadly wasn’t. [It] became mixed up with the door-to-door mail, which he transferred from the vehicle to his garage,” Mr Pearn said.
On sentencing him, chairman of the magistrates Howard Davies said, “Your actions have caused a great deal of harm not only to your employers, to whom you were in a position of trust, but also the community who lost goods and services to which they were entitled.
“This was aggravated by your efforts to dispose of the mail with the skips.”
A Royal Mail spokeswoman said, “This conviction underlines the fact that we take decisive action and will seek to prosecute all those found responsible for dishonesty.”

There’s been a bit of a buzz around Warwick recently…
Bottle banks set up by Warwick District Council have caused a nightmare for residents living nearby. Smashing glass and angry wasps are only the beginning of a long list of problems that are caused by the recycling banks. Shopkeeper Kay Lazecky has complained to the council and tells The Skip magazine that the banks have made her life a misery ever since they were set up. Woken early in the morning and kept awake late at night by the loud crash of glass, she says life is becoming intolerable and she is at her wits’ end. Worse still, Lazecky is allergic to wasps, and the insects have increased in numbers and have even set up home by the tip. The problem has become so severe, Lazecky has to sleep under netting to avoid being stung at night. (Perhaps we could offer her some discount on the netting? Just a thought! – Ed)
Warwick Council have admitted that the bottle banks have raised environmental health issues and health and safety inspectors have visited the site, commenting that they could easily attract vermin. So maybe Lazecky’s in luck.
District Council spokesman Richard Brooker commented, “We will do whatever we can to find an alternative site for the recycling centre if we can have it moved.”