DIY
A place to discuss UK-centric DIY. No sheetrock or drywall.
Wikipedia details DIY as a form of anti-consumerism, ain't that something.
Useful places to learn things: (taking suggestions!)
A UK how-to and forum site. People tend to argue a bit, but a good place to get an idea.
Useful places to buy things:
https://www.toolstation.com https://www.screwfix.com/
Wide range of tools and fixings, shop format is like Argos. Always worth comparing prices between them. Don't sell lumber.
https://diy.com https://www.wickes.co.uk/
B&Q and Wickes. Often more expensive than TS/SF, but carries lumber and garden supplies too.
Wickes deals can bring prices in line with builders merchants.
Watch out with B&Q's website, as they do that thing like amazon, where people sell through them (often overpriced)
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The word "could" in that BBC article is doing a lot of work !
I'd love to know the additional cost of this compared to the current cost to councils of dealing with fly tipping.
It seems crazy to charge at the point of disposal.
Perhaps a controversy idea, but for awkward-to-dispose items, shouldn't the cost of disposal be included in the purchase price?
For example: Tyres are definitely going to be disposed of at the end of their life. Let's say it costs £3 to properly dispose of one. Add that £3 as a disposal tax. All that money goes into a central fund.
Then when a tyre rocks up at a tip, the tip will accept them happily because they know they can get the cost of disposal back from the central fund.
It would up the price of a tyre (or whatever item it is), but that cost was there at the start anyway. At the moment it's just subsided through council tax.
I'm sure there are holes in this somewhat simplistic idea, but still it seems fair that if you buy it, you buy it for life, including when it inevitably gets hossed.