The honest waste library
No greenwash, no scare tactics. Where it goes, what it costs, what the law says, written by the people doing the collecting. A new guide lands every week.
Where your waste actually goes
Follow a WasteSpeed van load from your front room through the sorting line: reuse, metals, timber, WEEE, composting, energy recovery, and the small stubborn fraction that still ends up in landfill..
6 min read
What happens to your sofa after we take it
The afterlife of a collected sofa: the reuse test, the fire label question, and how a three piece suite becomes steel springs, chipped timber and energy at a materials recovery facility..
5 min read
Metal lives forever: how scrap becomes new steel
Steel and aluminium recycle endlessly without losing quality.
5 min read
How to get rid of a mattress properly in the UK
The UK throws away around 7 million mattresses a year and landfills most of them.
6 min read
Fridges, freezers and the law: WEEE disposal explained
Why fridges are the most regulated item in household waste: refrigerant gases, the degassing process, what WEEE rules require, and the right way to get rid of any appliance..
5 min read
Fly-tipping: the fines, the law, and how not to fund it by accident
Over a million fly-tipping incidents a year, fixed penalties up to £1,000, unlimited fines on conviction, and how householders get fined for other people's dumping.
6 min read
The house clearance checklist nobody gives you
Clearing a house after a bereavement, before a sale or at the end of a tenancy: what to do in what order, what is worth money, what needs a specialist, and what a clearance should cost..
7 min read
How to check any waste carrier in two minutes
Every legal UK waste carrier is on a free public register.
4 min readReading done, waste still there?
Check your postcode, pick your route day, done in two minutes.