Hi all, we have a cottage near Chalus (87230) and are wondering if there are any restrictions on how many times and what you can take to the tip. Whilst we are not ready to sell yet we want to have a clear out of all the clutter that has accumulated over the last ten years. Or if there are companies that will take it away correctly and not just dump it like we have had done to us in the UK.
Check the website of your local SMICTOM
In our area you need a card to use the decheterie. You are allowed 20 visits per year and believe we can carry over 5 more if unused from previous year.
We have the card and have used it a few times a year over the last 10 years for odds and ends and garden waste etc.
My local one has entry by card whereby the vehicle is weighed and recorded, you then tip your rubbish accordingly and onthe way out are weighed again and a ticket arrives with the recorded weight of rubbish disposed. There is a max weight allowance for use within three months at a time.
Please do NOT consign it to landfill. Almost everything can be recycled / upcycled. Try donnons.org or find an association in your area that will recycle your clutter.
Is it rubbish? Or just stuff you no longer want? If the latter, then donât take it to the decheterie, find your nearest charity organisations that sell (and raise money) and distribute/furnish peopleâs accommodation who otherwise would be homeless. I give to Emmaus all the time. Other alternatives are St Vincent de Paul, Croix- Rouge, and local churches. Weâve also spoken to our neighbours, asking âif they know anyone who would âŠâ Thatâs how we got rid of all the old concrete tiles from our pool surround.
We use the decheterie basically for garden clear-outs and complete rubbish. otherwise everything else has found a new home.
Sorry @cat - just realised, youâve already suggested this.
Almost anything can be recycled⊠or found a good home⊠it just needs a littke thought and patienceâŠ
Plus, there are more than likely some local charities which are happy to accept stuff, so other folk can benefitâŠ
and a Dog/Cat refuge will be grateful for unwanted bedding/blankets etcâŠ
Please only take the absolute minimum to the tipâŠ
EDIT: Ooops⊠we are all coming up with similar ideas⊠ah well, just shows theyâre good ideas
Syded do 20 visits or 10m3 of garden waste per year (I think?) but aside from that Iâm not aware of any limits. Iâve used several different tips under the SYDED association and theyâve all been good. After what others on here say about their providers, Iâve always found SYDED to be very easygoing and chilled, theyâve got more strict about checking whatâs in the bins from last year, but given they are, as I say, not difficult in the waste sites, and the recycling is pretty straightforward took there really is no need to put much in the bin anyway, although Iâm getting off of what you actually wanted.
Their website is useful
My recycling asso are even happy to take the string from my hay bales. One manâs trash and all that!
The recyclerie here is fabulous, they take things like broken bikes and appliances and fix them up and sell them either ante or post fixing up. All sorts of things.
They have anything you could imagine. I took stuff there to give them and came away with some fantastic old Madeleine baking trays, cost me a royal 50c
There is no intention to throw anything away that can be of use to anyone it is just empty paint tins old bags of cement that have gone hard. all are welcome to anything that is salvageable
Weâre at opposite ends of Haute Vienne, but our Ressourcerie Maximum are actually based at one of the main waste sires, in fact I think/ assume they operate the site for SYDED and run the encombrants service for them too, so perhaps you could do âdouble dutyâ and see whether any site local to you has something similar so the paint tins can go, and the stuff that can be recycled/ upcyclec/ reused in some fashion (and hasnât already gone to a good home otherwise) can go at the same time.
I would have thought that old paint tins, being metal, can go in the recycling bags. Certainly round here, only half an hour from you but in 24, they would go in with paper, and plastic.
I must say that I am surprised that there are restrictions on visits to dechetteries, surely they should welcome people to use them rather than fly-tipping? I have only been once to my local one in the next commune in 10 years, to dump a knackered old TV. The man took it without question without even asking where I was from.
Everything else, that doesnât qualify for the weekly collections, I keep and re-use myself, sometimes several years later.
Perhaps there is a limit to stop professionals from using it.
Professionals have to register (should register)
Yes, we used to have to pay for gravats etc at the déchetterie when we had the business, we would then get an invoice from the Trésor Public but it was very little to be honest and we did not mind
In our area 62 you can organise large items to be collected by the mairie committee or they will put you in contact of the equivalent of the local âRag n bone manâ that the uk used to have. The local dĂ©chĂšterie can provide a skip too but i donât know the charges. We donât have cards to visit our dĂ©chĂšterie but they ask what village you come from if they donât know you.
We have a pvc picket fence to get rid of. I shall keep the aluminium frames but not the pvc. I was thinking of putting it into the yellow recycling bags but is it recyclical?