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Permalink Reply by Brian M Smith on February 22, 2015 at 16:56

To prevent unscrupulous people such as metal thieves taking, for example, copper cables from beside railway lines and lead from roofs, metal dealers now have to be licensed. So it is unlikely that you will see the Romanians with a hand cart anymore. 

There are, however many scrap metal firms who will recycle metal (just do a search on the web). You can also recycle metal at your local Council recycling centre - no need to just dump it.

Your local centre could be at Summers Lane, depending on where you are.

Brian

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Permalink Reply by Nick Holywell-Walker on February 22, 2015 at 18:53

Great, thanks Brian. That would make sense, I am aware of some of the abuses that went on before, so licensing seems like a good idea. I was thinking that I could avoid the several trips to the recycling centre and the renting of a van if they collected it- always looking to go with the path of least resistance ( ie, cost! ) at this stage in the renovation process.

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Permalink Reply by jayne harvey on March 4, 2015 at 18:14

Leave it out on the street, I guarantee it will be gone by the morning. Plenty of people still roam the streets looking for scrap metal. I left some old doors out about a year ago and within 12 hours, the hinges had gone off them.

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