Owning your own home

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jellybaby in reply to @JesperXT

It's free to take your own domestic waste to the local council run site but commercial waste (which includes paying someone to take away your old fridge) has to pay for disposal.

Doesn't really matter how much the actual disposal cost is there is always room to undercut the people doing it properly by flytipping.

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JesperXT in reply to @jellybaby

OK. Domestic waste is free here too. Maybe the labour market plays a part too then. Our hourly wages for craftsmen are quite high, so £40 on top of the price is less than an hours wage.

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jellybaby in reply to @JesperXT

A lot of the things I see flytipped aren't really linked to craftsmen. It's things like old sofas and fridges. Difficult to take to the dump yourself, even if you have a car they might not fit. So you pay someone to take it away and they then dump it and keep the change.

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