The loop came first
WasteSpeed exists because our vans were already everywhere, every week.
For years our crews have moved pianos for Britain's biggest piano retailers, running one national loop a week: Midlands on Monday, the North West and Wales on Tuesday, London on Wednesday, the North and Scotland on Thursday, the South West on Friday, our home patch on Saturday. Every postcode area, every week, like a tide.
A loop like that has spare capacity, and a van that is already driving past your street is the cheapest, greenest way to collect anything. So WasteSpeed puts that capacity to work: sofas, mattresses, appliances, clearances, collected on the day the van was coming anyway. That is why we can publish fixed prices with disposal fees and VAT included, and why we never charge a rural surcharge. Aberdeen pays what Birmingham pays.
The piano heritage shapes how we work in ways that matter for waste. Piano crews are trained two person teams who carry third-of-a-tonne instruments down Victorian stairs without marking the wallpaper. Your wardrobe does not frighten them. It also means white-glove habits: shoes wiped, doors held, floors swept after, photo confirmation sent when the job is done.
The other inheritance is honesty about where things go. We publish the order of preference, reuse, recycling, energy recovery, landfill last, and we put our diversion target, over 90 percent, in writing on the recycling promise page. When something cannot be recycled, we say so rather than decorating it.
WasteSpeed is run by Jon Blades, trading as WasteSpeed, part of the PianoSpeed group of transport and logistics businesses, based in Faringdon, Oxfordshire. Questions, odd jobs, things you are not sure we take? bookings@wastespeed.co.uk. We answer fast and straight.
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