Information & Guides

If you have either a commercial or domestic project that requires the use of a skip, you might be wondering where you can put it, if you were to book one. The last thing you want is to pay for a skip service and then not have anywhere to place it on your property. If…

Leftover food is something no restaurant can avoid. It accumulates at the end of the working day and is often just thrown away at night. This food waste will go straight to landfill instead of being repurposed or recycled. But where does all the leftover food go that hasn’t gone to landfill and what can…

It takes a considerable amount of time and money to renovate a home or commercial premises and much of that time is spent meticulously planning every aspect of the overall process. What most people forget to do is work out how waste products will be removed from the property and subsequently disposed of – one…

Hiring a skip can be a relatively daunting task if you’ve never done it before, as there’s actually a lot more to it than one might have initially thought. Waste management jargon can also make the experience more confusing and overwhelming if it’s your first time hiring a skip. Therefore, Willshee’s are on hand to…

Believe it or not, this is a relatively common question in the waste management industry. But there’s a short answer to whether you can put items in someone else’s skip – no. It causes a lot of problems for all who are involved with the hiring of the skip and the person who dumps waste…

Food waste, together with the amount we throw away, has been of environmental and socioeconomic concern since as early as 1915 in the United Kingdom. With increased media coverage and more calls for the British public to think sustainably in order to reduce the amount of food waste that’s going to landfill, the Government has…

As an increasing number of local councils across the country are encouraging us to recycle at home, it’s never been more important to be as eco-friendly as possible when it comes to responsibly disposing of our rubbish. However, there are some members of the general public who favour fly-tipping over disposing of their waste sustainably….

It can be tempting, after generating copious amounts of waste upon completion of either a commercial or a domestic project, to try and fit it all into one skip. However, you run the risk of overloading it, which could prove to be very dangerous for yourself, pedestrians walking by the skip or motorists travelling in…

In the United Kingdom alone, across a variety of sectors, over 9.5 million cubic tonnes of food waste was generated in 2018 alone. 70% of that was produced for the general public to buy and consume, with the remaining 30% being considered ‘inedible’. Those figures equate to around £19 billion, together with 25 tonnes of…

If your waste management facility is licensed to deal with and dispose of end-of-life vehicles, then you’ll need to be issued with a Certificate of Destruction. This ensures that you’ve disposed of the vehicle in the correct manner in order to avoid fines and other forms of legal action. But what exactly is a Certificate…