Fires???

[dillsue]

I think the answer is, can you get away with it. There's no way I'd do it in a built up area, but I have had some massive fires in more rural locations. A couple of years ago we burnt a good acre of dense sea buckthorn, loading the fire with the tractor.

BTW farmers can apply for a liscense to burn plastic net wraps.

 

If I have plastics or tyres to burn back at the yard, I just wait for a foggy day.

 

Cant beleive I just read what you have said about burning tyres- either your having a laugh OR you aint got any friends or family that your concerned about poisoning!

 

As far as I know no one can burn any commercial waste except in a licensed incinerator. I dont think farmers get any exception from this, as on farm disposal by burying or burning was banned a few years ago. If farmers could get a licence for on farm burning then there would be no point in bring in legislation to stop on farm disposal unless the farmer had a licensed incinerator and alot of money to run it.

[Roger Day]

It might be wise if everyone stops advertising their burning transgressions here as it could have repercussions. The goggle web spiders catalogue your every word, all officials will have to do is search for certain key words.

We all have our stories to tell and acts we are not so proud of.....

 

With all due respect to everyone....

 

______Illegal Burning of any controlled waste is a serious offense_______

Punishable by large fines and even prison.

 

And it is crime against the environment that we the tree professionals are here to protect.

Please......Read the law.......Times have changed

 

Look Here...I think this covers most of what has been spoken off here

Environment Agency - Paragraph 30 exemption

Please read this before any further generalisation is forwarded

Best regards to all

[wills-mill]

.......Times have changed

 

Look Here...I think this covers most of what has been spoken off here

Environment Agency - Paragraph 30 exemption

Please read this before any further generalisation is forwarded

Best regards to all

 

Rog is right- 'Exemption' is the key word here.

 

Farms are a business like everyone else. Legally speaking, they SHOULD be recycling their plastic wraps and sacks, they should be replacing the second hand tyres on the silage pits and providing the paper trail to the EA (or SEPA in Scotland). They SHOULD apply for an exemption to allow them to burn plant waste such as stubble and hedge cuttings (this doesn't mean plastics Tom, or minging nasty deadstock or tyres etc)

 

 

Guidance in England (and Wales?) from EA- http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Our_approach_(Eng).pdf

Scotland- Burning waste

Norn ireland- Burning Piles Of Cut Branches Or Tree Stumps | RuralNI

 

 

On the question of burning:

A domestic householder has it easiest and doesn't require any registration.

Contractors require registration if moving and burning elsewhere.

Businesses need registration to burn their own wastes.

 

Farms are a business. They should be registered. If farmers want to bring lots of plastic onto their holding and use it in making a livelihood they should sort it out in a professional way.

[Dean Lofthouse]

With all due respect to everyone....

 

______Illegal Burning of any controlled waste is a serious offense_______

Punishable by large fines and even prison.

 

And it is crime against the environment that we the tree professionals are here to protect.

Please......Read the law.......Times have changed

 

Look Here...I think this covers most of what has been spoken off here

Environment Agency - Paragraph 30 exemption

Please read this before any further generalisation is forwarded

Best regards to all

 

Interesting that, because I believe everyone with a log burner will have burnt or does burn anything and everything that does burn.

 

A few tree surgeons burning a few branches is miniscule compared to the vast number of people burning laminates, food containers, magazines, preservative coated and paint coated woods on their fires.

 

I think putting things into perspective, a small fire burning clean brash is hardly a serious offence, compared to some back street garage trying to get rid of a pile of tyres by burning them in the middle of nowhere on a foggy day

[Rupe]

Again I agree with you Dean in your intention, BUT logfires and woodburners are not "commercial waste" and that is the big difference.

 

We can't burn what we have been paid to remove.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Again I agree with you Dean in your intention, BUT logfires and woodburners are not "commercial waste" and that is the big difference.

 

We can't burn what we have been paid to remove.

 

But we should be able to burn waste which is nigh on impossible to remove

[Rupe]

Yes, of course we should be able to.

[skyhuck]

Again I agree with you Dean in your intention, BUT logfires and woodburners are not "commercial waste" and that is the big difference.

 

We can't burn what we have been paid to remove.

 

So long as you are burning it on the site where it was cut you are fine, you can burn up to 10tonnes per day.

 

You cannot move it to a different site and then burn it.

 

I've done LA jobs where they have been happy for me to burn.

[Peter]

Burn green waste on site yes, up to ten tonnes per day, or more if the landowner applies for the proper exemption certificate from the EA.

 

I have burnt around 100 tonnes of poplar on site in two days, and I am quite happy to advertise that fact on t'interweb. In fact here is a short boring video of the event.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcn3Lozm-FM]YouTube - The big burn[/ame]

 

Burning anything other than green waste, or transporting green then burning it is a serious offence. I have a roro in my yard where all the rakings and hedge trimmings go, they are then transported by a licenced waste carrier to a licenced waste transfer station where they are composted.

 

Burning in a suburban garden will likely land you in hot water with neighbours and is best avoided.

[Rupe]

where all the rakings and hedge trimmings go, they are then transported by a licenced waste carrier to a licenced waste transfer station where they are composted.

 

Ha Ha! Me too!