Disposing of waste

[casto]

Wait till bonfire night, get a huge pile made up and sell tickets ;-).

 

 

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[simonm]

Waste exemption: D7 burning waste in the open

From:Environment AgencyPart of:Waste exemptions: disposing of wasteFirst published:28 April 2014Last updated: 21 December 2015, see all updates

This exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.

 

Contents

Type of activity you can carry out

Types of activity you can’t carry out

Types of waste you can treat

Quantity of waste you can treat

Key conditions

Related exemptions

Register a D7 exemption

Type of activity you can carry out

This includes:

 

a landscape gardener has trimmed hedges and branches and wants to burn them on a bonfire at the same place

Types of activity you can’t carry out

You can’t:

 

burn other types of waste other than those listed below

bring waste from elsewhere to burn

burn treated wood waste or wood waste coming from any source other than listed

use this exemption to burn waste in an incinerator for disposal (see related exemptions)

use this exemption to burn waste in a boiler to produce heat and power (see related exemptions)

Householders burning their own garden waste don’t need to register any waste exemptions.

 

Types of waste you can treat

The waste codes are those listed in the List of Wastes (LoW) Regulations. You need to make sure your waste fits within the relevant waste code and description.

 

Waste code Type of waste

020103, 020107, 200201 Plant tissue

030105 Sawdust, shavings and cuttings from untreated wood only

030301 Waste bark and wood

Quantity of waste you can treat

You can:

 

burn up to 10 tonnes of waste in any 24 hour period

store up to 20 tonnes of waste at any one time

store waste for up to 6 months before burning, to allow certain wood waste to dry out

Key conditions

The burning must take place on open land, not in an incinerator or a building.

 

You should be careful to position the bonfire where it will not cause nuisance to neighbours through excessive smoke or odour.

 

The burning must take place only at the place where the waste is produced.

 

Related exemptions

You can burn untreated wood waste in a boiler to produce heat and power under exemption U4: burning waste as fuel in a small appliance.

 

You can compost plant tissue under exemption T23: aerobic composting and associated prior treatment.

 

You can chip untreated waste wood from joinery under exemption T6: treating waste wood and waste plant matter by chipping, shredding, cutting or pulverising, then use the wood chip for animal bedding under exemption U8: using waste for a specified purpose.

 

These options above are preferable to burning in the open air because they result in recovering the waste rather than disposing of it.

 

You can burn waste in an incinerator to dispose of the waste rather than using it as a fuel under D6: disposal by incineration.

 

Register a D7 exemption

You need to register this exemption with us if you meet the requirements:

[simonm]

So you can burn at point of origin but not if it is moved from site! whats difference!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

So you can burn at point of origin but not if it is moved from site! whats difference![/

 

What about trying to look at it from a different perspective?

 

Look on the bright side, you've profited (by avoiding disposal costs) from contravening environmental legislation.

 

It's a bit like running a truck on red, it's all good til you get caught.

 

Now they're onto it, probably best to do it right. Registration as a carrier is free (lower tier), exemption application is free. Use the "registered waste carrier" as a plus point to put you ahead of the less well prepared!

 

I'd suggest the main reason for the exemption to burn at the site of production (D7) is to prevent or dissuade people from batching big piles of green at a single site (the yard) and also to make it illegal to take in others' waste to add to the pile.

 

Every cloud has a silver lining and all dat! And just think of the warm fuzzy feeling you'll get from being environmentally compliant!!

[Harves]

i use a lot branch waste as kindling, i cut it up, bag it and sell to people i know.

 

draw back is its time consuming, i pile it up and once a week spend a day cutting

[dig-dug-dan]

All well and good, but I was told you cannot take waste back to your yard and store it for disposal as its then a waste transfer station

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

All well and good, but I was told you cannot take waste back to your yard and store it for disposal as its then a waste transfer station

 

 

If you're going to use it, firewood, kindling, mulch, it's not waste. It's materiel awaiting processing.

[Goaty]

Its all a paper created farse. People who spent too long in education creating rules.

Yes you need permits to chip. To compost. To burn on site generated waste.

It costs a fortune to tip legally(£86 per ton just for landfill tax from coming April)

A firm i know composted tons of green waste but needed more paperwork and permits to shift it apart from on their own land. Meanwhile a "tarmacing transit outfit " i know of sticks ads illegally everywhere claiming to recycle 99%.

Instead they keep a skip constantly alight in a yard rented on a farm where the farmer uses tractors to haul hookloader bins from the city to dump on the farm and heap up or burn on the side of a river managed by the EA. This has gone on for over 5 years. Since he got out of prison for growing weed as his previous enterprise.

 

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[openspaceman]

If you're going to use it, firewood, kindling, mulch, it's not waste. It's materiel awaiting processing.

 

Unless it's covered by their position statement on virgin timber they have waste exemption T6 but you only have 7 days to process it and then 3 months to decide what to do with the processed waste.

 

Whilst you may register the exemption it will be invalid if the use of the land does not comply with the planning permission.

[woody paul]

I keep see that word WASTE it is only this if it has no further use.