Hi.

Hoping somone can help me out here. I have a collegue that works at a small family business and has a Roro skip delivered. Th ecompany uses this for wood and garden waste collected from their activities. A fork lift truck will load rubbish into teh skip and then attach a bucket and but more rubbish in. The issue is after these processes whereby a man ten climbs in and stamps down the wood etc. to ensure more goes in.

Does anyone have a safe working solution for this as the owner suggests that thsi will continue.

Many thanks

M

Skip diving is fraught with danger - entrapment, entanglement, impalement, laceration, fracture, infection

If they are trying to maximise the weight per load they need to consider the material fill - if as suggested this is wood and garden waste why not fill via a chipper/shredder unit which would eliminate a lot of the void and remove any need to clamber over the skip.

In shredded form it may even be possible to sell the material rather than paying for disposal

Have they discussed the load with the disposal contractor?

If full fencing panels are being deposited in a skip it makes sense to add these last as they would help secure loose materials in the bottom of the skip.

It may or may not be practicable for the operation but if fence panels are a common waste stream is there a manner to segregate to aid re-use or recovery?

In a previous employment we had pallets dropped in general waste taking up space (reducing tonnage per skip) - after a chat with the contractor we had a seaparate skip provided that allowed us to maximise the cubic fill which was self financing as we reduced the total number of skip movements