Junk It Scotland

If you work in an office, hopefully you will not notice too much waste or clutter. Nowadays, with more stringent health and safety guidelines in place, offices cannot afford to get this wrong.

As we have mentioned in previous blogs, there’s nothing worse than sitting in an overcrowded house full of junk. It makes you feel cluttered and disorganised (unless you are the ones among us who collect everything and can’t bear to throw anything away due to sentimental value!). However, most of us have to be ruthless at some point in our lives, otherwise we would be living in a permanent jumble sale.

We thought you might like to know a little more about our partnership with the Woodlands Trust. Our commitment to only ever purchasing new vehicles to carry out our collections ensures that we are always in the most fuel efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles possible. Even our cool trucks though still unavoidably produce some Co2 emissions, that’s why we decided to partner with and donate to the Woodlands Trust to pay to have these emissions offset by the planting of new saplings!

Watchdog’s exposure of fly-tippers last night on BBC1 was commendable in our opinion. It highlighted the true cost of what has become a scourge on our society and the lengths that unscrupulous waste carriers will go to in order to avoid paying the appropriate disposal costs and cash in on a ‘fast buck’!

MFI was established in 1964 and was a national British furniture retailer. It was one of the largest suppliers of bedroom and kitchen furniture and operated in out of town locations, the advantage being that the company could get bigger premises for less rent. Good quality furniture was sold at reasonable prices. However, with other retailers rapidly expanding into furniture, such as B&Q, and the opening of Swedish furniture giant Ikea in 1987, sales took a sharp decline. With the recent rec

We will shortly be going live with our brand new website and would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new Aberdeen customers! As well as our original pages, such as blogs and contact information, we hope this these changes will make it simpler for our customers to use our services and that you can also have an input into the information we post.

We will shortly be introducing a new member of our team, Jamie, who is the new face of Junk-It. Thanks go to our customers and a recent facebook campaign who gave us ideas for names. Jamie is being kept strictly under wraps for now and will be revealed in the middle of May when we launch our new website.

It’s an exciting time for us as we have now expanded our business up north to Aberdeen! Our first big job was work carried out in conjunction with The University of Aberdeen.

We were delighted to receive a letter from the British Heart Foundation thanking our Edinburgh depot for our donations from house clearance and rubbish clearance in Edinburgh.

At Alba Facilities Services Ltd (AFS) we provide commercial and domestic maintenance services, repairs and installations. These services cover plumbing, heating, gas, electrics, air conditioning, ventilation as well as kitchens and bathrooms etc. For some of our clients we also offer the role of facilities management/project management.

When Ross Martin at Junk It asked me to write a guest blog for their website I was more than happy to do so. Not least because any time we need property cleared or items of furniture uplifted they are the only company we use but also because we share many of their values and commitment to service.

We promote reuse of redundant IT equipment to minimise the environmental impact of computer disposals and follow the waste hierarchy principles of reuse before recycling. This allows customers to reduce their disposal costs and improve their Corporate Social Responsibility and green credentials while ensuring WEEE Regulations compliant disposal.

We all like to hold on to items from our pasts that carry a strong sentimental value but if you find yourself secretly nodding in agreement at any of the following then there is a fair chance that you’re hoarding might be starting to get just a little bit out of control.

If you’re thinking about skip hire for a house clearance job or an office clearance job in the Bearsden area of Glasgow then you might want to be aware of a few things:

If you’re thinking about skip hire for a house clearance job or an office clearance job in the Partick area of Glasgow then you might want to be aware of a few things:

At Junk-It we like to keep the new-age claptrap to a minimum! However, there does seem to be truth in the idea that you can tell an enormous amount about the inner condition of a person by looking at the outer conditions of his or her life.

Many studies have shown that potential buyers perceive a home that is strewn with junk to be decrepit and worth far less money that its true market value. People also associate the presence of junk with more general structural decay and undesirable creepy crawlies and bugs!

Here’s a junk removal job that many other companies might have shied away from!

The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) recently published some truly shocking statistics. Local authorities in Scotland are recycling a mere 44% of the household waste they collect! Believe it or not, we recycle more than 80% of domestic waste - fully audited. Why such a massive difference? Many people in Scotland are making a positive contribution towards local authority recycling and the local environment in general through the use of multicoloured recycling bins at

Rubbish piling up at the back of your premises? It’s a fire risk. It’s an environmental risk. It’s a pest control issue. You simply cannot allow this to happen… ever. If your usual waste carrier has let you down and you need a fully audited, totally transparent quotation from a reputable company, call us right now on 0141 433 4330 (Glasgow) or 0131 228 3848 (Edinburgh) for an immediate response. In fact, why not insist on updating any contract with your existing waste carrier such th

This week we’ve had a surge in calls from anxious businesses with looming deadlines to vacate their existing premises. With all the stress and chaos that inevitably ensues when a company moves location, there oftentimes seems to be a “last minute panic” following the sudden realisation that everyone’s overlooked getting rid of the old office furniture! To hire a skip in the Edinburgh or Glasgow areas expect to pay £150 - £160. Obtain a permit from the local council. Pay extra proportionat

Back in December we were finalists for the “Waste and Resources” award at VIBES 2011, which is an accolade given out in recognition of “how effective waste and resource management can create new business opportunities towards meeting Scotland’s climate change targets”. Competing against some truly massive names, we didn’t ultimately win top prize, but we DID take huge encouragement from what the judges had to say… which we’d like to now share with you!

An eye-popping recent report from Keep Scotland Beautiful rated Edinburgh and Glasgow rock bottom of Scotland’s “cleanliness” league table once again, citing a steady rise in fly-tipping, litter and graffiti as three of the key reasons why. “Fly-tipping” simply means illegally dumping waste by the side of the road, or on a piece of land with no license to accept what’s being disposed.

In November 2011, we mailed a grand total of 125 letters to all of the customers that we serviced in Edinburgh and Glasgow during that time. The most common job types that we completed were house clearance, rubbish removal, and waste disposal. To date, we’ve received back an amazing 80 replies (64% response) from those customers serviced in November – without offering any financial incentive or future service discounts for individuals to take time to write to us. 100% of the responses tha

We recently completed our biggest EVER project clearing 5 floors of Napier University’s Merchiston Campus as part of a brand new £100m refurbishment. In total we removed more than 85 truckloads of “junk” from scores of offices and labs (many reminding us of chemistry classes at school!) an impressive 24 days ahead of schedule - despite being placed under some uncommon restrictions around when we could access to the premises to do the job.

If you’re thinking about skip hire for a house clearance job or an office clearance job in the Bridge of Weir area of Paisley then you might want to be aware of a few things:

It’s reached that time of year again when we put down our brushes and shovels and pick up our ice picks and scrapers to help you take care of all your unwanted items of junk… even when it’s frozen over.

If you’re thinking about skip hire for a house clearance job or an office clearance job in the Clydebank area then you might want to be aware of a few things: 1. Expect to pay £150 - £160 for the skip 2. Arrange a skip hire permit with West Dunbartonshire Council first 3. Extra fees to be charged based on the weight of your junk 4. Abide by restrictions on what you can place in the skip

In recent years there’s been a surge in the number of companies offering instant cash in return for your personal possessions. Online there are various websites promising cash for your old mobile phone or DVDs and even on the High Street more and more companies offering you instant cash for your cherished personal possessions.

In November 2006 Ross Martin abandoned his successful twelve-year career as an estate agent to embark on a whole new career in junk - starting from scratch with just a single truck and his kitchen table with no outside investors.

One of the things we challenge ourselves to do most here at Junk-It is continuously think up creative new ways to recycle the items we collect. That’s why we’re thrilled to say that in the month of October 2011 we successfully diverted a massive 82% of junk collected by each of our seven trucks away from landfill.

For the first time ever we’ve just added a 6.5-tonne vehicle to our fast growing fleet - a big step up in size from our usual 3.5-tonners. This new truck takes our fleet up to seven in total and offers us the important benefit of greater weight capacity for heavier jobs. It comes to us fresh off the production line as per our company policy of only ever buying brand new low-emission vehicles.

If you’re thinking about skip hire in the Edinburgh or Glasgow area, Junk-It is a fantastic new service here to make your life easier by doing exactly the same job faster, better, cheaper, and even “greener”.

If you’re based in Edinburgh, Glasgow, or anywhere else across Scotland for that matter, here are 9 very good reasons to let us be the ones to take care of all your unwanted household and/or commercial junk…

In a new move to offset carbon emissions from our fleet of trucks and become completely carbon neutral as a business, we are delighted to announce a partnership with the Woodlands Trust.

Recently we got an unexpected call from a large national supermarket chain asking us to make an unusual collection. Iceland had accidentally overbought 450 loaves of bread for one of their brand new store openings! How do you recycle THAT???

The VIBES awards recognise Scottish Businesses that have shown commitment, action and achievement in reducing their impact on the environment.

After an independent audit by the British Assessment Bureau we’re excited to announce ISO14001 certification in recognition of the clear processes and procedures we have in place to effectively manage Junk-It’s ongoing relationship with the environment.

If you’re thinking about skip hire for a house clearance job or an office clearance job in the Paisley area then you might want to be aware of a few things: 1. Expect to pay £150 - £160 for the skip 2. Arrange a skip hire permit with Renfrewshire Council first 3. Extra fees to be charged based on the weight of your junk 4. Abide by restrictions on what you can place in the skip

The Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home is a registered charity (Charity No SC006914) run by its Committee of Management and is a member of the Association of Dogs and Cats Homes. They are one of the few independent homes in Scotland taking in many hundreds of stray and unwanted dogs and cats every year.

We have developed efficient procedures for ensuring that we can organise effective disposal of computer monitor equipment for your company. This involves adherence to all the WEEE guidelines, and if appropriate making sure that it is environmentally friendly recycling rather than straight disposal of computer monitor equipment that takes place.

As we’re all too aware Christmas is fast approaching, so now might just be the time to have that clear out and make space for this year’s wave of prezzies! If that’s the case for you, here are our top 10 reasons to hire a professional junk removal company to do it for you!

We have just been advised that we have made it to the final of arguably Scotland’s most prestigious and well recognised environmental awards for the second year running!