Unusual Uses for Skip Bins

Innovative ways to use skip bins, and how to re-purpose an old skip bin around the home or business A little creativity and imagination can go a long way. The same can be said for your old, unused spare skip bin. Skip bins are generally used for waste removal. You hire a skip bin for […]
Skip Bin Sizes

Choose from a wide range of skip bin sizes. Waste is easy to produce but difficult to get rid of. Pretty much every home-related project you can think of will produce a lot of refuse. Renovations, cleaning projects, restorations, and refurbishments are just a few examples. The type of waste being produced by each project […]
Skip Bin Hire for Monster Truck Show in Newcastle

Helping to keep events clean While most of the focus lay on the Monster Truck Show at this year’s Festival of Fire – there were also many additional jobs taking place out of the ‘spotlights’. Here at Newcastle Skips, we were contracted to provide the waste removal service for the event and worked alongside the […]
Health Benefits of Clearing All Your Junk

Whatever season it may be, removing junk from your home or business is a good thing. Excessive rubbish can be detrimental to your health and even to your property value. It affects not only you but everyone around you. Many types of rubbish like organic wastes can leave us with a worse quality of health. […]
Top Items You Should Recycle from Your Home

Australians have established a good reputation when it comes to recycling. It’s been found that 51% of household waste gets recycled in this country. This is actually on par with the recycling rates of northern European countries. Amongst the appeals of recycling is that it is a win-win situation. Not only are you helping conserve the […]
Skip Bins, Recycling, Sustainability

Rubbish removal is something that we need to do regularly. Rubbish accumulates at home, and even at your work place. If it is not disposed of immediately it not only takes up space at home or at work; it can also bring unwanted germs to those in it. Therefore, waste removal is a task we […]
Best Questions to Ask When Choosing Your Hook Lift

A hook lift is a truck that features a hydraulic hoist system on the back. It provides an easier way to haul and dump items from containers like skip bins. It’s also quite flexible in that it can haul many containers by making use of a trailer. In some cases, it can pick up bins […]
Where Did Skip Bins Start?

The use of skip bins, also known as ‘dumpsters’ in other parts of the world, might have started with beekeepers in Europe sometime in the 1700s. At that time, beekeepers used baskets made of straw, wicker, or hollow logs to build the colonies. The term ‘skip bin’ comes from the Norse language ‘skeppa’, and the […]
What are the Limitations of Your Skip Bins?

Like any other object, skip bins have limitations in terms of their use. There are certain considerations that you need to think about to keep your skip bins in tip-top shape all the time. There are also policies that come with skip bin use. What are the limitations of skip bins? As functional and hardy […]
Using Skip Bins for Event Waste Management

Does the thought of event aftermath scare you? We understand. Water bottles, plastic packaging, and food containers – you name it. It can be a hassle, but if you know the secret of using skip bins, it doesn’t need to be one. Good thing Skip The Tip has bin there, done that (pun intended). Most […]