I had the same problem, now I take all my recycled items, bottles, cans and cardboard to Tesco's at Sowerby Bridge, where they have plenty of room for cars with a massive car park, I have never had any problems, in fact I have only ever met one other car there at the same time. And you can walk in too.

typical council thinking, you cant walk in the waste site unless you have got out of a car.

With the number of people who park on the green walkway its a surprise they let you out of your car at all, perhaps they are intended to launch their refuse into skips or bottle banks from the safety of their car seats.


I am not surprised they dont let pedestrians in at halifax, the way the council vehicles tear past the queued up customers on the wrong side of the road you are hardly safe in you cars let alone on foot.

A lot of people have taken to putting their rubbish in black bags and dropping them on moor tops. There's no queues, not much traffic and reduced risk of being run over.

I had a similar experience over the weekend at Brighouse's tip. I was asked by a neighbour to take some rubbish down to the tip because the bin men had decided not to take them, leaving the two unopened bags at the side of her bin for two weeks. I drove down and found a traffic jam so got out of my car and walked to the skip with the two bags in hand only to be abused by one of the workers on the site, suddenly another two workers appeared and joined in the abuse. I was very angry but i kept my mouth shut, less restrained people would have put the three workers in hospital. I walked away, deciding i would write a letter to the local council. I didn't bother. I know that such complaints are ignored. The workers at the tip were just jobsworths doing what jobsworths do.

I have decided i won't be visiting the again, next time i ned to dispose of any waste i will be paying a visit to the man in charge of the tip, Clr Graham Reason and will leave my rubbish for him to sort out.

I should add that am joking about taking my rubbish to Clr Reason.

the sites are a disgrace far too small especially sowerby bridge and its a 3/4 hour wait at elland and
worse now than befour it was restructured