Householders Being Urged To Ease Landfill Fines Threat With Free SnaffleUp Resource

Nov. 5, 2008 - PRLog -- Householders in London are being urged to ease the threat of landfill fines and beat the credit crunch with a free online resource called SnaffleUp.

Keen recycling fanatic Chris Toynbee, who runs a London website design company, decided to put his skills to good use by launching SnaffleUp to reduce the amount of useful household items that are needlessly thrown away and place increased pressure on the use of landfill.

The www.snaffleup.co.uk site now provides a user-friendly location where people can donate unwanted household goods and search for items that others have already posted.

SnaffleUp members can enter their postcode to search for local items and do not need to register to browse through the various categories including: home, kitchen, furniture, baby, toys & hobbies, garden & pets, computer peripherals, clothing, and crafts.

Every item is free and all collection or delivery costs are negotiated between the site’s members who can set up email alerts to inform them when items they require become available.

A forum facility has also been included on the site, as part of an ongoing improvement policy, to allow members to post their suggestions, which can be voted on by other members of the SnaffleUp community.

Chris is hoping London householders will join the SnaffleUp community and help to combat the throwaway culture that has seen the UK become the worst EU country for dumping waste into landfills – amounting to 27m tonnes, according to the Local Government Association (LGA).

“London boroughs now face huge fines from imminent landfill charges under the EU’s Land Directive, yet a lot of household items that end up in landfill sites still have plenty of life in them,” says Chris Toynbee.

“I hate to throw things away needlessly and so I created the SnaffleUp.co.uk site to allow people to donate their unwanted but useful goods to others who can give them a new home.

“At a time when householders in London are feeling the credit crunch, SnaffleUp is an easy and convenient way to help save money, reduce the impact on the environment and prevent local councils from being issued with millions of pounds of landfill fines.”

www.snaffleup.co.uk

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Chris is hoping London householders will join the SnaffleUp community and help to combat the throwaway culture that has seen the UK become the worst EU country for dumping waste into landfills – amounting to 27m tonnes