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Trial and error I guess? Is there any room for negotiation? I have agreed a price with my green waste site per bulk bag of rubbish as I have a panel van and that's how I deal with rubbish.
Yes you need to include your time to the tip, it's all part of the job. How you do it is up to you. I include it in the cost of the rubbish disposal rather than making a separate cost of it.
Fortunately I have a bit of space at home so can stack a few bags out of the way. I charge the customer a x amount more than it costs me to dump, so when I have 4/5 bags it's a profitable trip. Just means a bit of double handling of the bags.
It’s a perennial problem - some sites charge by weight with a minimum ‘gate’ price, others charge by volume.
We have access to both types of site, so we choose depending on what the green waste is ( which is why chip/shred a lot of our waste).
Suggest you never take grass in by weigh-station ;)
If you monitor your WTN you should start to see a pattern of quantity vs costs to help future price ups.
We charge the associated labour & travel and after too many years of doing it, for an inclusive price we know the % ratio.
For one offs etc we charge a fixed price for each 1000l bags - again this covers labour etc
Hope that helps ...
How much does everyone pay for waste,
i get charged £108 for half a ton
As mentioned above I do it by the bag full but that seems quite a bit
I don't know how it equates in weight but I'm paying £6 incl vat per bulk bag.
A couple of comments;
- are you using one of the large waste companies (Suez, Viola, re3 etc )?
- check your WTN’s EWC codes
To me that sounds like general / mixed waste charges.
‘Clean’ Green waste should be ‘recycled’ and does does not attract land fill tax.
If coded correctly at weighbridge i’d expect ~£60-70 per tonne with a min 400-500kg gate cost.
Last year I was paying £58 per load upto 500kg this year it almost doubled £108
I only use it now for large waste jobs ie trees and fencing as I have a arrangement for green waste with a local farmer who I pay £35 per month for unlimited green waste
For Green waste at £108 per ton is being overcharged. For green waste you should be looking being charged from the recycleing centre approximatley £65 per ton with a minumum of £15-20 charge.
If you have the means od storing the heavy logs for fire wood all the better for you cost.
I can fill a flat bed with most branhces tied down quite high for £25-£30 waste cost.
Time is always included. Most places have a minimum fee - in our sites case this is half a ton. Our weighbridge tickets generally average between 650 and 1500 kg on a fortnights 'mixed maintenance' - we cut quite a lot of grass though - one average filling 4-5 bulk bags a day with just the grass throughout the season.