If you’re planning any DIY or building work at home or in your garden, make sure you find out about new charges being introduced for some non-household waste at the nine CRCs (community recycling centres) which accept it.
The new charges will come in from 1 September, and apply to waste from construction, alterations or repair of your home or garden, such as plasterboard, breeze blocks, bricks, rubble and soil. Tyres from cars and motorbikes will also be subject to a charge.
Here are some more details about what you will and won’t need to pay for, and how much the charges will be:
- Non-household waste in bags no bigger than 50cm x 77cm will be charged at £4 a bag.
- Sheets of plasterboard no bigger than 120cm x 240cm will be charged at £4 per sheet.
- Items such as concrete fence post, ceramic bath, cistern and paving slab will be charged at £4 per item.
- If the material is loose, a charge of £50 will apply per car load.
- A charge of £5 will apply for tyres from cars and motorbikes.
- Bicycle tyres will be free of charge.
- There will be a free daily allowance of chargeable waste of one bag or one item or one sheet of plasterboard per household.
- Charges can be paid by credit or debit card.
Increased demand for essential services, coupled with reduced government funding, means Surrey County Council needs to reduce its spending in other areas, including its CRCs.
A full list of the types of waste that will be charged for is available at surreycc.gov.uk/recycling.
We can only hope that the new charges will not increase the incidence of fly-tipping!
