It cannot go in the mixed skip. Really.
Gypsum has to be kept apart from biodegradable waste by law, because the two together produce hydrogen sulphide in landfill. This is the stream people get wrong most often, and the one most likely to get a load rejected at the gate.
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Tell us the volume and the postcode. Priced within the hour.
Why the rules are what they are.
Gypsum landfilled alongside biodegradable waste generates hydrogen sulphide. That is why segregation is a legal requirement rather than a preference, and why facilities reject contaminated loads rather than charging extra for them.
- Requirement
- Segregated from biodegradable waste
- Materials
- Plasterboard, gypsum, dry lining offcuts
- Outcome
- Recycled into new plasterboard
- Container
- Dedicated skip or bags
- Risk if mixed
- Load rejected at the gate
What goes in a plasterboard load.
Over-ordering wastes money and under-ordering wastes a delivery slot. We would rather tell you now than send you the wrong thing.
- ✓Plasterboard offcuts from dry lining
- ✓Whole and broken boards from a strip-out
- ✓Gypsum-based products and skim waste
- ✓Board with ordinary screws and tape still on it
What we would not put in it
- ✗Anything else at all. A plasterboard load with general waste in it is contaminated and gets rejected, not surcharged
- ✗Boards soaked through with water or heavily contaminated with plaster slurry
- ✗Insulation and timber battens, which are their own streams
Not sure which side of the line your waste falls on? Ask us. It is a thirty second conversation and it saves a wasted delivery.
Three steps, and one of them is ours.
Tell us the postcode
Four fields. No account, no sign-up, and nobody rings you to qualify you before you get a number.
We price it against the market
We are a brokerage, so your job goes out to the suppliers who actually cover your postcode rather than to one depot's price list.
A real person comes back
Usually within the hour in working hours, with a price and a delivery date. If a different size saves you money, we say so.
One call instead of four.
You can do this yourself. Most people do it once and then stop, because the hour it takes is worth more than the difference it finds.
Doing it yourself
- ✗Board slipped into the general skip and hoped for
- ✗A load rejected at the gate and returned to site
- ✗A compliance problem that surfaces at audit
- ✗Nobody on site clear on why it matters
One point of contact
- ✓A dedicated container from the start
- ✓Routed to a gypsum recycler, not a landfill
- ✓Documented as a segregated stream
- ✓A straight explanation your site team can act on
The things people ask before booking.
Because gypsum landfilled with biodegradable waste produces hydrogen sulphide, which is toxic and smells of rotten eggs. Segregation is a legal requirement, not a preference, which is why a contaminated load is refused rather than surcharged.
The facility can reject the whole load. That means it comes back to your site and you pay for a wasted movement on top of the correct disposal. It is the single most expensive way to save a few minutes of sorting.
No. Ordinary fixings, jointing tape and skim are all fine and are dealt with in processing. What matters is that general waste, timber and insulation stay out.
For a dry lining job, usually a dedicated skip. For smaller volumes, bags or a shared collection alongside another stream can work out cheaper. Tell us the volume and we will size it rather than defaulting to a skip.
Yes. Clean plasterboard goes back into manufacturing new board, which is why facilities are willing to take it as a clean stream and why contamination matters so much to them.
Board out, legally and separately.
Tell us roughly how much board and where the site is. We will size the container and price the collection.
Or ring 0161 570 0813 and we will price it on the call.