Gas Bottle Life?

[Gypsyblood]

Hi all. Can someone explain to me what the situation is with old gas bottles?
I've been told that some empties you can exchange for full ones and others are confiscated and you have to pay to have them disposed of.
We've been using gas bottles since I was a child on camping trips and the old battered bottles were taken for replacement and disposed of by the company that owned them. It now seems that, even though we are still charged a rental fee, we have to bear the cost of the disposal of old bottles! Is this correct?
Thanks in advance

 

[Phill D]

Hi all. Can someone explain to me what the situation is with old gas bottles?
I've been told that some empties you can exchange for full ones and others are confiscated and you have to pay to have them disposed of.
We've been using gas bottles since I was a child on camping trips and the old battered bottles were taken for replacement and disposed of by the company that owned them. It now seems that, even though we are still charged a rental fee, we have to bear the cost of the disposal of old bottles! Is this correct?
Thanks in advance

Can’t see that, you exchange a bottle for a full one and pay for the gas, that filled bottle is likely to be well in date.
Unles your empty is a really old bottle and has obviously been superseded .

 

[Bobby-gg]

I think you've been talking to someone who hasn't got a clue!

In the UK, you have a cylinder, be it calor, flogas or whatever, you use it until empty, take it to the calor/flogas whatever agent, and you pay them to exchange it for a full one

 

[Gypsyblood]

Can’t see that, you exchange a bottle for a full one and pay for the gas, that filled bottle is likely to be well in date.
Unles your empty is a really old bottle and has obviously been superseded .

That's what I thought but the guy in the gas shop said they won't take old bottles. They charge for getting rid of them and you have to buy a new bottle plus pay for the gas in it. Comes to over £70!

 

[Gypsyblood]

I think you've been talking to someone who hasn't got a clue!

In the UK, you have a cylinder, be it calor, flogas or whatever, you use it until empty, take it to the calor/flogas whatever agent, and you pay them to exchange it for a full one

That is how I've always known it to be.
I think I'll be going to a different supplier and ask them about it.

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[Bobby-gg]

That's what I thought but the guy in the gas shop said they won't take old bottles. They charge for getting rid of them and you have to buy a new bottle plus pay for the gas in it. Comes to over £70!

Are you trying to exchange like for like supplier?

If not, take your old empty to the tip, buy a old one that you want from Facebook/admag/etc and exchange that one

 

[Bobby-gg]

But also be aware that calor are getting rid of some sizes of cylinders

 

[Go_buddy_go_]

Could be wrong but think some tips won’t take empty gas bottles?

 

[Phill D]

The bottle you have must be really old and in poor condition.
Try a different gas shop

 

[gus-lopez]

What bottle,size & make is it? & welcome

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[Spriddler]

Could be wrong but think some tips won’t take empty gas bottles?

Mine takes them and there are usually many in a secure cage, but they won't sell them.

 

[bobandjanie]

The gas bottles are exchanged, although many have sold them, you only hire the bottle and don't actually own them, so you have no right to dispose of them. Bob.

 

[Bonsaiman]

My bottle has a metal collar which states "tested 2020", "next test 2035", pretty sure I will have exchanged it before then

If they are refusing to exchange yours has the next test date past?

Calor are are crying out for bottle returns and will even arrange collection, so doubt they would charge to dispose of them

Cause that assumes yours are Calor!!!!!

 

[Bonsaiman]

Could be wrong but think some tips won’t take empty gas bottles?

My local tip in Leeds won't take gas bottles and charges if you want to dispose of small quantities of certain building materials (plasterboard, ceramic tiles, bricks etc)

Also according to Calor because you only rent the bottles under the CRA it's illegal to dispose of them for recycling or turn them into BBQ's etc.

 

[Gypsyblood]

All of the above is what I've always been led to believe. As in France and Spain, you rent the bottle (1€ the last time I got one in France) and pay for the gas. You take your empty bottle back and exchange it for a full one. If you no longer have need of it and wish to end your contract, you can apply to do so, send/take in your contract and get a refund. Simple.
Although I've never known anyone to actually do this. They usually pass them on or just take them back to the shop and say thanks but I don't need it anymore. Can you send it back for me?

Thinking about it, I reckon the guy I was talking to must have been referring to the skip/recycle plant. They shouldn't take them as, like the blue Chep pallets, they belong to the company and are therefore theirs alone to dispose of. Memory jog about a scrap man who actually took a step back when presented with what can only be described as a wreck of a bottle and said' I can't tek that! The rozzers will av me guts if thee find it! Huddersfield born and bred. I love them Yorkshire folk!

For those who asked, I don't actually have a bottle. I'm doing a couple of camper conversions and need bottles for them. I have a friend who has a mound of old bottles in his unit at work and has offered me the choice from said mound to take as my empties, hence the original question.

I think a couple of calor butane for each should do

So thank you all. It's back to the original plan of take in an empty and swop it for a full one. Thanks for all your replies and thanks for the welcome gus-lopez. I think I'm going to like this site

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