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On a building site the bin you choose has a real effect on cost. The single biggest lever is simple: keep clean, heavy material separate from mixed waste. Here is how to decide what goes where.
Dedicated concrete and brick bins
Clean concrete, brick, pavers, tiles and masonry recycle cheaply. When a bin contains only these materials there are no excess weight charges, so a dedicated concrete and brick bin is almost always the cheapest home for heavy clean rubble.
Mixed building-waste bins
Timber, plasterboard, offcuts, packaging and general site rubbish go in a mixed building-waste bin. Mixed loads are charged at a higher rate and have a weight allowance, so keeping dense clean material out of them saves money. Our builders skip bins are built for exactly this.
Do not mix if you can help it
The moment you throw a slab of concrete into a mixed bin, the whole bin can tip into overweight and you lose the cheaper clean-material rate. On bigger jobs it is worth running two bins side by side — one clean, one mixed — and briefing the crew on which is which.
Watch the weight
Because heavy material fills a bin by weight first, a smaller bin is often the right call for concrete and brick. Read how skip-bin weight charges work so there are no surprises.
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