New Laws regarding lead acid batteries

[aspenarb]

Cant see a £40 license worrying the place I buy my truck/plant/car batteries from and all the ones I get online are gel.

 

Bob

[lurkalot]

15 minutes ago, difflock said:

And the 97% acid drain cleaner bottles widely sold?

never mind the phosphoric? acid sold in 210 litre barrells to preserve silage, nasty stuff from 40 year old memory

Yes, as far as I'm aware those will come under the same laws, and will need a licence.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-licensed-transactions-for-explosives-precursors

https://eforms.homeoffice.gov.uk/outreach/epp-licence-new-guidance.ofml

[aspenarb]

18 minutes ago, lurkalot said:

Yes, as far as I'm aware those will come under the same laws, and will need a licence.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-licensed-transactions-for-explosives-precursors

https://eforms.homeoffice.gov.uk/outreach/epp-licence-new-guidance.ofml

 

More arses polishing office chairs, just what the country needs. I  ran a few old batteries down to the scrappy the other day and because they were over a certain weight I had to fill in a form and pay some kind of charge to the government .

 

Two years worth of battery swaps , not made like they were. Seem to just get past the warranty and then fail

[swinny]

3 minutes ago, aspenarb said:

 

More arses polishing office chairs, just what the country needs. I  ran a few old batteries down to the scrappy the other day and because they were over a certain weight I had to fill in a form and pay some kind of charge to the government .

 

Two years worth of battery swaps , not made like they were. Seem to just get past the warranty and then fail

Id have loaded some of them back in the truck and took them back scrappers a month later! Bastards

[aspenarb]

21 minutes ago, swinny said:

Id have loaded some of them back in the truck and took them back scrappers a month later! Bastards

Just looked Chris, there was about 422 kgs of batteries and they nicked about 10%. Not sure what the cut off is but I will take them in smaller batches from now on.

 

Its some kind of hazchem bollocks.

 

[AHPP]

How much money did you get for them, Bob?

[aspenarb]

13 minutes ago, AHPP said:

How much money did you get for them, Bob?

I suppose you need to keep below 200kgs to avoid the penalty.

 

 

 

Edited June 17, 2018 by aspenarb

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, aspenarb said:

I suppose you need to keep below 200kgs to avoid the penalty.

 

I think most firms charge about 30 quid for a consignment note, all hazardous waste requires one as part of the chain of custody, 5 batteries or less is allowed to use a shorter reporting method but consignment note still required.

 

I only thought of two work arounds, first was to drive vehicle to waste disposal premises and change battery there, as it only becomes waste when changed, second claim the batteries came from litter picking on Network Rail land as they had an exemption to take hazardous waste directly from railway to a licensed premises.

[AHPP]

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

I think most firms charge about 30 quid for a consignment note, all hazardous waste requires one as part of the chain of custody, 5 batteries or less is allowed to use a shorter reporting method but consignment note still required.

 

I only thought of two work arounds, first was to drive vehicle to waste disposal premises and change battery there, as it only becomes waste when changed, second claim the batteries came from litter picking on Network Rail land as they had an exemption to take hazardous waste directly from railway to a licensed premises.

The fact we're talking about this is enough to put bombing parliament on the cards.

[peatff]

That's BS when I can go into the local shop and buy a bottle of Harpic Max 10 for £1 if I want to disfigure or blind someone