Could Tesco not simply have given the bikes to a metal scrap company for recycling which would be more environmentally friendly than throwing them away for landfill disposal?
Tesco store caught out dumping £4,000 of unsold bikes
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Could Tesco not simply have given the bikes to a metal scrap company for recycling which would be more environmentally friendly than throwing them away for landfill disposal?
Boycey
juvenile rave slut
yes. surely that is what happened? chucking away scrappable/recycleables is very naughty and i believe possibly illegal...
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Erm, I think people who run skips are into the idea of scrap metal vs. landfill. Possibly
But yeah, it's mauvais's point about making and selling the worthless junk in the first place that is most enraging.
But yeah, it's mauvais's point about making and selling the worthless junk in the first place that is most enraging.
Zabo
Well-Known Member
Given I am getting on in years, I can say with a sense of history that I wouldn't give the bastards a gob full of spit.
For you young ones, if you are interested in ethics and history look up the twat Dame Shirley Porter and of course Tesco's collusion with the Vermin in recruiting slave labour.
They could have given the bikes to any number of charities in Greater Manchester - least of all Emmaus who have a recycling workshop.
For you young ones, if you are interested in ethics and history look up the twat Dame Shirley Porter and of course Tesco's collusion with the Vermin in recruiting slave labour.
They could have given the bikes to any number of charities in Greater Manchester - least of all Emmaus who have a recycling workshop.
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
I worked temping in a certain store years ago and used to destroy absolutely obscene amounts of fresh produce in the skip/ compactor ...blocks of ham, cheese, tomatoes, roast beef . And nothing bloody wrong with it ! Just nearing the sell by date . once when I was upstairs I saw the manager walk up to this big box and dump in an armful of vodka and whiskey bottles. " the barcodes are fucked " he said . I peered into it later . There were even partially damaged cartons of fags, still in the wrappers .
Anyways when I'd climbed out of the big box later I said to myself...hmmmm. Quite a bonanza . Basically I loaded up and fucked off home .
A day later I started worrying about CCTV so moseyed out behind the security guard when he was going for a smoke and just sort of asked him did he not get bored looking at cameras all day. He just laughed and said they don't even work, except for the till ones .
Mmmm...I said to myself again. so I loaded up again , and even started filling bags for my mates, either students or on the dole. My fridge and cupboards were full of whatever I could carry . Pretty much .
It was near Christmas so I thought id mention this snippet of news in my then local..which almost promptly emptied . You could get a leg of lamb in there for a fiver after that . recycling can be both fun and rewarding .
Anyways when I'd climbed out of the big box later I said to myself...hmmmm. Quite a bonanza . Basically I loaded up and fucked off home .
A day later I started worrying about CCTV so moseyed out behind the security guard when he was going for a smoke and just sort of asked him did he not get bored looking at cameras all day. He just laughed and said they don't even work, except for the till ones .
Mmmm...I said to myself again. so I loaded up again , and even started filling bags for my mates, either students or on the dole. My fridge and cupboards were full of whatever I could carry . Pretty much .
It was near Christmas so I thought id mention this snippet of news in my then local..which almost promptly emptied . You could get a leg of lamb in there for a fiver after that . recycling can be both fun and rewarding .
seventh bullet
sovietwave
Most 'managers' in these settings are glorified supervisors. My immediate manager is basically a shelf-stacker who gets to hold the keys.
A few years ago two managers tried to cover up the fact that they hadn't been bothered to do a proper and thorough stock take (or specifically the excess stored in the warehouse, and particularly looking for out of date lines to record waste) by skipping loads of expired stock (from tinned salmon to more expensive cosmetics, facial creams etc). Someone must have grassed them up because an outside auditor turned up within a day and went straight to the skips out in the yard and found it all underneath other waste. Security cameras recorded one of them driving a forklift loaded with the stuff, about ten grand's worth in the end.
SaskiaJayne
Rural Guerrilla
Fyi, All recyclable material thrown into a skip is recycled, it's how skip companies make their money. A skip is not taken straight to landfill, it costs £82.60p in tax per tonne to dump in landfill. The skip is taken back to the recycling yard, tipped out & the contents sorted, much of it by hand(yes, it is a shit job). All the recyclate is separated, metal, glass, soil, paper, plastic etc & only the very minimum total shit is landfilled. The recyclate is bailed & sold to companies that process the material.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
There aren't 24 of them in that skip either, but "Tesco bin half a dozen busted, cheapo, bikes" ain't much of a headline is it?
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
A manager thinking outside the box would've just left these bikes outside for someone to 'collect' for free.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Well, yeah, they should have done exactly that. Companies often hide behind some sort of legalese around 'end users', the fact they might still be liable if someone hurt themselves on the bike/chair/tin opener that was given to charity or straight to the public. It's largely bollocks afaik and can at least be overcome with a bit of effort (some kind of waiver). Certainly a massive company like Tesco will be fully aware of how to dispose of assets. This smacks of a shit company with a shit attitude towards the environment - and an even more shit attitude to people in need.
That would be theft by finding since the riots though. Or someone would find one and have an accident on it then sue tesco.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
I shouldn't think that would be a problem in Stretford
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I used to run events for a large non-profit. It was much the same. It always annoyed me when the big wigs wouldn't feed the staff and then made us dump whole beef roasts in the garbage. I always tried to use this one caterer. She loved feeding people. She'd feed the people at the event, feed the staff, and then take the leftovers to the homeless shelter. When I could, I'd make sure the staff got fed and the odd bottle of wine or vodka went home with someone who'd done a good job that day.
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Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I have to wonder how often these lawsuits happen. I think its mostly an urban myth. I'm sure you could find a few, but for the most part people aren't interested in suing, even in the US.
It wouldn't stop a manager from using it as a reason. The project I work at is offered loads of stuff that we refuse because if we were to pass it on and something went wrong it could lead to publicity which would affect any future contract.
In fact it's coming to the time of year when I get loads of free razors that people put in shoeboxes.
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
My mate bought some UHT custard dated best before 2025...It's what they put in them, or do to them to make them last that long that's concerning.
Last weekend Mrs Spy found a packet of tortillas in the back of the fridge that had been there for over a month. She was about to bin them and I stopped her and read the use by date. Apparently they're good until June 2016!
Ned Kelly
Member
ISO stuff innit.
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
I worked for a company who had ISO 920something something
Whenever a product was returned to them, wether it was faulty or not, it had to go in the skip.
My old Manager used to go to Head Office and pull loads of stuff out of the skip, fill his boot, he would have a bit himself and give us the rest to sell.
I'm talking reels of electrical cable, hose clips. Not the sort of thing that could be faulty in anyway.
He got caught. He got sacked.
Crime of the century
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
I worked for a company who had ISO 920something something
Whenever a product was returned to them, wether it was faulty or not, it had to go in the skip.
My old Manager used to go to Head Office and pull loads of stuff out of the skip, fill his boot, he would have a bit himself and give us the rest to sell.
I'm talking reels of electrical cable, hose clips. Not the sort of thing that could be faulty in anyway.
He got caught. He got sacked.
Crime of the century
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
It's always been theft by finding.
hasn't always been enforced though
NoXion
his soul is marching on
My mate bought some UHT custard dated best before 2025...
slightly off topic
I remember in the early days of this website, people sharing info about city office blocks throwing out old PCs in skips.
Quite a few people got their first computers and office swivel chairs skip raiding.
I've had a working printer, camera, CD player and amp raiding bins.
I remember in the early days of this website, people sharing info about city office blocks throwing out old PCs in skips.
Quite a few people got their first computers and office swivel chairs skip raiding.
I've had a working printer, camera, CD player and amp raiding bins.
free spirit
more tea vicar?
we kitted out half our office and warehouse with stuff being skipped by the university. When they move a department to a different building all the furniture get's stuck in the corridor for a couple of days, then what's left gets skipped. We had to do 3-4 van loads to get it all out, it's nuts the amount of stuff that they'd have skipped if we hadn't.
Ned Kelly
Member
MY old Manager said anything returned that had been opened, ie, everything,
had to be chucked to comply with this prestigious ISO standard,
But this was all commercial consumables. electrical connectors etc
We always said if we could have got the skip dropped off round our place, we would have been millionaires.
What a wasteful, shit country
had to be chucked to comply with this prestigious ISO standard,
But this was all commercial consumables. electrical connectors etc
We always said if we could have got the skip dropped off round our place, we would have been millionaires.
What a wasteful, shit country
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
The students in the area I used to live in used to throw out heaps of good stuff at the end of the year when they moved house. The whole area used to get pretty grim as all the bins would get tipped out by scavengers after everything from in-date tinned food to working laptops/iPods etc. One friend once got a change jar with about £8 in it out of a skip. Literally throwing money away. A crazy combination of wealth and laziness.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
At work we were doing some survey work at a public tip, a workmate saw someone put what looked like a new condition bass guitar in a skip and asked one of the tip workers about it, but they were told that everything had to get crushed, nothing could be taken away, and that one of the workers at the tip had been fired and prosecuted for taking home an electric oven and installing it in his own kitchen. Shit like this makes me really fucking angry.
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
I still do student bins in the summer to this day.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
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