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Is Your Garden Ready For The Summer ?
Spending the long cold winter months dreaming of how you can make your garden the paradise at home you want it to be, so you can spend leisurely days with your feet up and not worrying about a thing, can seem a little daunting and to some extent overwhelming. But how can you take the steps to prepare for those days and make sure your garden is ready for the summer ? This is the perfect time to contact a skip hire service, before everyone has the same amazing idea. Saving Money With Skip Hire A really simple and cost effective way is pre-booking a skip hire service like ours...
Moving Out? Comprehensive Guide
Whether you rent or have decided to move from the property you own, it is always stressful to some degree or another when this happens. There are always plans that never happen or unpredictable events that throw them out of the window altogether. This guide will help you figure the best plan for moving house. Planning Planning as much as possible is an essential step, that takes up about as much time as it does to move, you would use this to plan what services you'd need to hire in order to complete the move as seamlessly as possible. You'd plan what items need moving first and w...
Planning a pre-Christmas clear-out?
Christmas is soon upon us and it has come around fast, it's the time of the year for giving and spending time eating some good food, festive cheer and of course the abundance of trash that builds up from all the gift wrap, old clothes that have since been replaced and cardboard boxes torn apart from excited children (and some adults) in a frenzy to get to their perfect gifts and socks. This is the five best tips and practices for planning a pre-christmas clear-out Planning makes perfect Sticking to a plan can be more of a task sometimes than the actual task at hand...
Great options for waste removal!
A build up of household items is usually inevitable and leads many to throw their stuff in the bin and never give it a second thought, there are a few other options you may want to consider before doing that as many of these items are wasted everyday and could easily be put to better use, and if they can we offer skip hire services across manchester and stockport to better aid you and your needs. Donate all things that can be donated Donating items to charity shops is a great way to support charities and local people by giving back to the community. Items like coffee tables and clo...
What impact has lockdown had on household waste?
Lockdown has affected people in a massive variety of ways and has caused problems across all sectors of business and people's lives, such as healthcare, education and retail. But how has this had an effect on household waste? And how can our services of skip hire across manchester and stockport be useful to you? People haven't been able to get to the tips Lockdown has prevented people from being able to leave the house in order to get to a tip to get rid of excess waste, this problem has been further escalated by tips temporarily closing down due to government guidelines. This ha...
Five Tips to Reduce Your Household Waste
There is more pressure for people to become environmentally responsible. From recycling our garden and food waste to reducing the amount of paper and plastic we use - everyone needs to do their bit. In this article the United Junk team looks at five top tips to reduce your household waste. 1. Minimal packaging One of the first ways you can reduce your household waste is through packaging. While there are some items where this can’t be avoided you can keep an eye out and look for products where the packaging is minimal. Also, look for products where the packaging can be recycled or...
Top Tips to Reduce Your Commercial Waste
If you’re a business owner, then you have a duty to ensure that you recycle and dispose of your commercial waste responsibly. There are ways that you can reduce your commercial waste, and, in this article, the United Junk team looks at seven of them. Waste audit Are you aware of how your business accumulates and disposes of its waste? If not, then a good place to start is with an audit. This will allow you to see how the waste is built up and via what processes. If these processes are detrimental to the running of the business and waste management then they can be eradicat...
The Different Types of Waste Explained
We often don’t give too much consideration as to what we throw away. When hiring a skip, the main goal is to get rid of as much waste as possible. But do you know what the five main types of waste are? No, well don’t worry in this article the United Junk team gives you the full run down. 1. Organic waste First up is organic waste, something which many homeowners will be familiar with. Organic waste refers to garden and food waste that will decompose over time. However, it mustn’t be thrown away with regular waste and is usually disposed of via the green waste b...