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Dogs Home Receives Our August Charity Donation

Dogs Home Receives Our August Charity Donation

The winner of our August charity draw nominated Battersea Dogs Home to be the recipient of this month’s donation. Battersea Dogs Home takes in pets that can’t be cared for properly in their current environment and rehomes them with loving families. It’s a cause...

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Right to Repair: Fighting Back Against E-Waste

Right to Repair: Fighting Back Against E-Waste

New European legislation aimed at limiting the amount of electronic items going into the waste system (E-Waste) is fighting back against built-in obsolescence, and Britain (even post-Brexit) looks set to benefit. What is built-in obsolescence?‘Built-in...

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Happy Christmas and New Year from the Team at WT Skips

Happy Christmas and New Year from the Team at WT Skips

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank our hardworking staff and customers old and new for another successful year! It’s no joke to say it’s been a particularly tough one, so thank you to everyone for putting in the extra time and being so supportive of each...

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Season of Goodwill: WT Skips Plants Forty Trees

Season of Goodwill: WT Skips Plants Forty Trees

At WT Skips we believe it is every human’s responsibility (obligation even) to care for the planet we share. All of the waste we collect is disposed of responsibly - with whatever can be being recycled. For this year’s charitable donation we joined an initiative...

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Receive One Hundred Pounds for Your Favourite Charity

Receive One Hundred Pounds for Your Favourite Charity

The community in Norfolk and Suffolk have really stepped up at this time of national crisis. We hear heartwarming stories every day on the news of people going above and beyond to help their neighbours. We’ve always loved being part of the community in Great...

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Latest Covid Rules Will Not Affect Our Services

Latest Covid Rules Will Not Affect Our Services

Another week, another change in the laws relating to the restrictions placed on businesses operations in the latest phase of the pandemic. Norfolk entered the November lockdown from Tier One and has emerged into Tier Two. As during the fuller November and spring...

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Hedgehog Rescue: Narrow Escape for Skippy

Hedgehog Rescue: Narrow Escape for Skippy

It’s a good thing that we are very thorough when sorting through our skips! All of the waste put into our skips is hand sorted to make sure that everything that can be recycled is recycled. And we had an unusual find this week – a hibernating hedgehog!The sleepy...

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Norfolk Hazardous Waste Amnesty September and October

Norfolk Hazardous Waste Amnesty September and October

Every year, Norfolk recycling centres hold a hazardous waste amnesty - these are special dates when facilities are in place to take donations of certain classes of hazardous waste. They are always busy, and with Covid-19 measures in place, you can expect to be queuing...

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Happy Birthday to WT Waste Founder Wally Thurtle

Happy Birthday to WT Waste Founder Wally Thurtle

We find it hard to believe, but founder of WT Waste Wally Thurtle turns 80 this week. On behalf of all our staff and customers, we'd like to wish him a very Happy Birthday!!!Wally started his waste collection business in the early eighties after a farm accident saw...

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The Twelve Trees of Skipsmas

The Twelve Trees of Skipsmas

The Great Yarmouth Mercury ran a story on our donation of twelve Christmas trees to residential homes across Norfolk and Suffolk. They were all homes that have used our waste disposal services, and we felt we wanted to give them something back.So we headed down to...

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