Farmyard Rubbish

Earnshaw

How do people dispose of general rubbish on their farms?

Have 3 big fertiliser bags full of all sorts of ****e from the farm that I want to get rid of responsibly - rather than burning it or throwing it into a hole like I used to see other farmers doing.

It's all random bits that i've been gathering throughout the year. So plastic, metal and timber mixed together.

The black silage plastic and netting is separate and that's collected on its own.

893bet

The most responsible way is to separate it out.

Timber-dry and burn or dump and let it rot away.

Metal-scrap yard

Hard plastic-local recycling centre

Soft plastic-bin it

Leave it together then it can only go to land fill.

_Brian

Earnshaw wrote: »

How do people dispose of general rubbish on their farms?

Have 3 big fertiliser bags full of all sorts of ****e from the farm that I want to get rid of responsibly - rather than burning it or throwing it into a hole like I used to see other farmers doing.

It's all random bits that i've been gathering throughout the year. So plastic, metal and timber mixed together.

The black silage plastic and netting is separate and that's collected on its own.

No easy answer to that question really.
As above, if your serious it will need separating.

Other than that a skip and load them in.

Had similar discussion with a client recently after a cross compliance inspection and he reckons soon enough we will need to be showing proof of how this is being done.

Maybe receipts for proper waste company.

capslock88

Every year I take a cow box full to the local landfill...it's all stuff that can't be recycled or is too dirty..if there does happen to be any timber or metal in it then they have a section where I can put that as well...I find it keeps the place at home relatively clear and tidy...It costs about 90e or so but it's worth it to know I won't ever have to be looking at it again!..All recyclable plastic goes to ipppg in a separate load..

wrangler

capslock88 wrote: »

Every year I take a cow box full to the local landfill...it's all stuff that can't be recycled or is too dirty..if there does happen to be any timber or metal in it then they have a section where I can put that as well...I find it keeps the place at home relatively clear and tidy...It costs about 90e or so but it's worth it to know I won't ever have to be looking at it again!..All recyclable plastic goes to ipppg in a separate load..

Local place here charges €200/ton and they sort it, there's a lot of rubbish in a ton. I usually sort it but I don't think I'll be bothered from now on, life's too short

patsy_mccabe

Sort it and each type goes different routes. I had a pile of empty small fertiliser and meal bags and nowhere to go. Put an add on Donedeal and weeks later a guy rang looking for them. Took them all and gave me a few €€ for them. He sent me on a text later saying he'd take more from me aswell. Before that I was paying the plastic recycling to take them.

Old tyres still a constant headache here. Mad pile of them.

TheFarrier

The council recycling centre is about 3 miles away from me here at home.
Car trailer in corner of the yard, fill it away as we go. We don’t use any wheelie bin service. House hold rubbish and recycling in bins at back porch, and when those are full, back into the trailer and take household and yard rubbish in one fell swoop, usually once a month or that way.

€3 to get through the gate, and they usually want €10 or €15 for the rubbish. The listed car trailer rate is €20 but when there’s any recycling at all in with rubbish they’re usually sound enough.
An hour a month of a Saturday morning and the place is kept reasonably right.

Keep all the receipts stuck to a notice board in the office, for the day they’ll come knocking asking us to prove we’re not fly tipping.

Have done big clear outs too, when doing up the house, and got rid of heaps of stuff for a fraction of the price of a mini skip.

Plus the rubbish in the trailer keeps lads from wanting to borrow it.

Odelay

The IFA or similar should be asking for a derogation to exempt silage pit tires for recycling without a fee, or a minimal fee. A once off, with a limit, 90% to be over ten years old, and link it to herd number.
There must be the world of tires in yards that are not of use anymore. Much of them were repurposed long before the disposal fees came in.
What else will happen to them.

Figerty

Odelay wrote: »

The IFA or similar should be asking for a derogation to exempt silage pit tires for recycling without a fee, or a minimal fee. A once off, with a limit, 90% to be over ten years old, and link it to herd number.
There must be the world of tires in yards that are not of use anymore. Much of them were repurposed long before the disposal fees came in.
What else will happen to them.

I separate them and bring it to the recycling/landfill centre.

I brought recyclables in one trip. Load of old radiators, electrical, plastics, cans etc. very good value and at least they are getting recycled.

On another trip, I filled the 8 x 4 trailer with carts to brim with nut bags, manure bags etc. It's €70 per trailers, so I filled to the top, packed them down with the mini digger,, filled again,, packed them down again and filled to the top.
It was all bags of bags, about 10 years worth so it too about 10 minutes to empty at the centre.

Figerty

Odelay wrote: »

The IFA or similar should be asking for a derogation to exempt silage pit tires for recycling without a fee, or a minimal fee. A once off, with a limit, 90% to be over ten years old, and link it to herd number.
There must be the world of tires in yards that are not of use anymore. Much of them were repurposed long before the disposal fees came in.
What else will happen to them.

There was a while back., you must have missed it.

ganmo

Odelay wrote: »

The IFA or similar should be asking for a derogation to exempt silage pit tires for recycling without a fee, or a minimal fee. A once off, with a limit, 90% to be over ten years old, and link it to herd number.
There must be the world of tires in yards that are not of use anymore. Much of them were repurposed long before the disposal fees came in.
What else will happen to them.

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/400-farmers-and-900t-of-tyres-arrive-at-cootehill-tyre-collection/

K.G.

Any tips for reducing the amount of plastic used on farms or ways to recycle containers etc to give them a new life.have almost cut out bags either big or small for ration(only calf stuff in spring).next is bales-i d love to know the figure for the amount of plastic used to make 50 acres of bales verus plastic on pit.oil by the barrel that said oil drums are reusable up to a point

Mooooo

K.G. wrote: »

Any tips for reducing the amount of plastic used on farms or ways to recycle containers etc to give them a new life.have almost cut out bags either big or small for ration(only calf stuff in spring).next is bales-i d love to know the figure for the amount of plastic used to make 50 acres of bales verus plastic on pit.oil by the barrel that said oil drums are reusable up to a point

Depending on usage could get teat tip etc delivered in ibcs? I get milking machine oil by the barrel now, they are steel so can go for scrap., same for hydraulic oil

cute geoge

I would love to know the sheer amount of black plastic used on silage bales trough out he country ,surely this would be the biggest single use of plastic in the country .We all know it is not much use in recycling ether you would think at this stage an alternative enviromently friendly plastic could be used for bales

K.G.

cute geoge wrote: »

I would love to know the sheer amount of black plastic used on silage bales trough out he country ,surely this would be the biggest single use of plastic in the country .We all know it is not much use in recycling ether you would think at this stage an alternative enviromently friendly plastic could be used for bales

Open to correction and rough estimate s.
Roll of wrap 30 kilos .50 acres at 10 bales is 500 bales÷30bales a roll is 1/2ton of plastic
A 50 x100 cover might do 50 acres at 100kg? Of plastic.
Dipute as you please

Figerty

cute geoge wrote: »

I would love to know the sheer amount of black plastic used on silage bales trough out he country ,surely this would be the biggest single use of plastic in the country .We all know it is not much use in recycling ether you would think at this stage an alternative environmentally friendly plastic could be used for bales

I think it can be recycled and re purposed into other products.
I would say there were more plastic spoons and forks used in Fast food outlets than agriculture waste in bales. It would good if there was an alternative.

You get a nice plastic lid on a drink but with a recyclable straw.. They all go in the one bin in any of the fast food outlets. but there isn't much discussion on that at the moment.

visatorro

K.G. wrote: »

Any tips for reducing the amount of plastic used on farms or ways to recycle containers etc to give them a new life.have almost cut out bags either big or small for ration(only calf stuff in spring).next is bales-i d love to know the figure for the amount of plastic used to make 50 acres of bales verus plastic on pit.oil by the barrel that said oil drums are reusable up to a point

I'm either getting fert in coop filled into spreader or delivered top lift so less plastic. Feckin hate plastic from bale's. There is places making posts out of 50 gallon plastic drums. Few 25kg bags of calf crunch are used for bins.
Can hard plastics from doses be recycled if washed out?

Dinzee Conlee

Anyone with a few 40 (or are they now 50?) gallon plastic drums going spare in West Cork, feel free to ping me...
Am looking for a few for a small project...

Edit : ha ha, I re-read my post, and realised I am turning into what my grandfather used to do, and I used to hate - bringing home other lads rubbish, cos ‘it’d be useful’

cute geoge

I heard back in the day a entrepreneur stacked empty plastic buckets and drums into each other and packed container full and exported back to China ,suppose plastic is so cheap nowadays it is not a runner

Figerty

cute geoge wrote: »

I heard back in the day a entrepreneur stacked empty plastic buckets and drums into each other and packed container full and exported back to China ,suppose plastic is so cheap nowadays it is not a runner

China has stopped accepting the wests rubbish. Apparently the got sick of being dumped on. Was covered a while back. A lot of 'recyclable' wasn't recyclable at all.

farawaygrass

I’m clearing out our old tool shed and there is a 4-5 buckets of old spanners, broken, imperial, some odd bits the old man gathered up over the years. Any suggestions for getting rid of them or just the local metal yard?

Thepillowman

farawaygrass wrote: »

I’m clearing out our old tool shed and there is a 4-5 buckets of old spanners, broken, imperial, some odd bits the old man gathered up over the years. Any suggestions for getting rid of them or just the local metal yard?

Lots of people use imperial spanners still myself included. Should be easy enough to move them on.

Melodeon

farawaygrass wrote: »

I’m clearing out our old tool shed and there is a 4-5 buckets of old spanners, broken, imperial, some odd bits the old man gathered up over the years. Any suggestions for getting rid of them or just the local metal yard?

A lot of people are interested in old tools and the like, so don't rush to the scrapyard option too quickly!
The IVETA run/facilitate several auto-jumbles throughout the year, if you can hold on until one of those is going on within reasonable reach of you; no 2020 calendar online yet, but last year's gives a good idea of that goes on: https://www.iveta.ie/index.php/rally-dates

Or even just go along to a nearby rally to see what people are interested in.

blue5000

farawaygrass wrote: »

I’m clearing out our old tool shed and there is a 4-5 buckets of old spanners, broken, imperial, some odd bits the old man gathered up over the years. Any suggestions for getting rid of them or just the local metal yard?

Melodeon wrote: »

A lot of people are interested in old tools and the like, so don't rush to the scrapyard option too quickly!
The IVETA run/facilitate several auto-jumbles throughout the year, if you can hold on until one of those is going on within reasonable reach of you; no 2020 calendar online yet, but last year's gives a good idea of that goes on: https://www.iveta.ie/index.php/rally-dates

Or even just go along to a nearby rally to see what people are interested in.

If Melodeon's suggestion doesn't work out for you then you could up-cycle them:D
https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/443604632028695639/?lp=true

Jimmy Garlic

I remember seeing a video where a south African farmer was turning all his plastic waste into diesel using a mini refinery that he built out of scrap. Must see if I can find it again.

farawaygrass

blue5000 wrote: »

If Melodeon's suggestion doesn't work out for you then you could up-cycle them:D
https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/443604632028695639/?lp=true

Nice idea but don’t have the patience! Will keep an eye for the vintage rallies. I want them gone but would feel bad dumping them too

whisky_galore

Melodeon wrote: »

A lot of people are interested in old tools and the like, so don't rush to the scrapyard option too quickly!
The IVETA run/facilitate several auto-jumbles throughout the year, if you can hold on until one of those is going on within reasonable reach of you; no 2020 calendar online yet, but last year's gives a good idea of that goes on: https://www.iveta.ie/index.php/rally-dates

Or even just go along to a nearby rally to see what people are interested in.

I'd advertise them in batches on Adverts or Done deal which you can do for free. I did autojumbles in the past but got turned off by their entry fees, more than what a car boot sale would ask at times. Otherwise if you know some one going, ask them to sell them for you and split the fee or give something for their trouble.