The Changing Nature of House Clearances

two The Waste Team branded vans outside a house with three men clearing a house of waste

House clearances are the best and worst part of our job.  A lot of the time we’ve been instructed to carry out house clearances due to a death in the family, such as someone’s parent or another close relative. As part of our service, we meet the family and walk the property and deliver the […]

No rest for the wicked, bank holiday clear out

three The Waste Team waste vans lined up in a row in Leeds city centre with two male team members

On the 28th August, a shop fitting firm from down south called us late on Bank Holiday Sunday. They had pulled up the floor at Pret in town and needed our help to clear it out. We arrived first thing Bank Holiday Monday ready to give up our bank holiday weekend and crack on with some […]

Biscuit, anyone?

The waste team branded waste truck with open door piled high with biscuits still in packaging

Rationing in the UK began during WW1 because we were at war, yet was stopped in 1954. 65 years later, food is going to waste – and believe it or not this is 2 tonnes of out of date food hoarded by one individual at a domestic house clearance. Whether they feared an apocalypse or […]