Do we need waste carriers license?

[Pedroski]

I wouldn't class wood chip or timber as waste anyway as all my chip goes to allotments, golf courses or people's gardens, where it gets used, if I take it to my yard it rots down to compost which I sell. The timber goes for logs.

It may only be needed for hedge clippings or stuff that I burn. No doubt we will need a licence to fart next:)

 

Hodge, there was an issue with woodchip at the yard rented by my mate a few years ago. The EA came to have a shifty and showed no concern toward a huge pile of brash and fence panels that was all ready to be burned. They showed no concern toward a huge heap of hardcore (I mean HUUUUGGGEEE) that mate's brother had been building up over the years. They showed no concern toward bulk bags full of plastic. The only thing they showed concerned toward was a pile of woodchip, about a 2 cubic metres. Their concern was based on the possibility of leachate getting into water courses. And this yard is miles from the nearest water courses and on the edge of farmland.

 

My mate was lucky. In all honesty the yard looked like an unlicensed waste transfer station. All they said to him was that he had to be careful with woodchips. They could have forced him into registering the yard as a waste transfer station, and could also have rollocked him for burning of fence panels (although at the time they weren't on fire..... merely sitting on top of burned ground!).

[Hodge]

I damned if I do and damns if I don't!! You can't win can you, it seems some folk can do what they want and get away with it. Sod em!

I burn nothing mate. Wink,wink. In fact I don't do anything. better not get me started.

[18 stoner]

I damned if I do and damns if I don't!! You can't win can you, it seems some folk can do what they want and get away with it. Sod em!

I burn nothing mate. Wink,wink. In fact I don't do anything. better not get me started.

 

[skyhuck]

A very good point.

 

Also you may not realise, but even if you have a WCL you also need paper work for duty of care of waste to go with it.

 

I.E, records of what waste, how much, where it came from, and where its gone on given dates etc. Your WCL is a waste of time without it.

 

Very good point Pete, it really makes me laugh when people get a WCL and think it some how makes them "legit" and "professional"

 

The WCL just means you are agreeing to abide by the rules and regulations of the EA scheme, which as you say means keeping a paper trail of where the waste came from (signed by the customer) and where it was disposed of.

 

If its just a piece of paper, that you bought, how on earth can that possibly make you more professional???????????

[Ruskins Trees]

1) Clients are asking for waste carriers licence

 

2) I saw waste carriers licence being used by the police to snare all kinds of illegal operators whilst waiting for the dentist, watching day time TV.

 

They pulled over all white van type vehicles & lorries and if they were carrying anything that looked like waste, demanding a waste carriers licence, when they could not produce it the vehicle inspectorate went over their vehicles, HMCE went over their business details, Police checked them over, DHSS & border police went over the individuals.

 

None could produce a waste carriers licence. They nearly all got nicked on multiple counts. It gave me a lovely warm feeling. I was in the dentist chair when they summed up that xyz got a £15 fine and 5 hours community service.

[skyhuck]

1) Clients are asking for waste carriers licence

 

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My clients ask "if I need one" I point out I don't and they are happy:thumbup:

[nick channer]

Hodge, there was an issue with woodchip at the yard rented by my mate a few years ago. The EA came to have a shifty and showed no concern toward a huge pile of brash and fence panels that was all ready to be burned. They showed no concern toward a huge heap of hardcore (I mean HUUUUGGGEEE) that mate's brother had been building up over the years. They showed no concern toward bulk bags full of plastic. The only thing they showed concerned toward was a pile of woodchip, about a 2 cubic metres. Their concern was based on the possibility of leachate getting into water courses. And this yard is miles from the nearest water courses and on the edge of farmland.

 

My mate was lucky. In all honesty the yard looked like an unlicensed waste transfer station. All they said to him was that he had to be careful with woodchips. They could have forced him into registering the yard as a waste transfer station, and could also have rollocked him for burning of fence panels (although at the time they weren't on fire..... merely sitting on top of burned ground!).

must be very leanient EA officers thats all i can say... they call on us at least once a fortnight now... cant burn a single thing except from tree branches from trees off the farm.. need an excemptioin cert for hardcore and burnoff tarmac.. they want to see duty care tickets for where the hardcore has come from.. and under no circumstances can we store wood chip that is to be resold off site.. only way we can store it is for use on the land..

me and the old man have had 2 sepereat interviews each at there head office in hatfield all under caution and taped..

[Pedroski]

must be very leanient EA officers thats all i can say... they call on us at least once a fortnight now... cant burn a single thing except from tree branches from trees off the farm.. need an excemptioin cert for hardcore and burnoff tarmac.. they want to see duty care tickets for where the hardcore has come from.. and under no circumstances can we store wood chip that is to be resold off site.. only way we can store it is for use on the land..

me and the old man have had 2 sepereat interviews each at there head office in hatfield all under caution and taped..

 

This was about 5 years ago now. Things have changed quite a lot since then. One lad who works around here was done last year for tipping grass cuttings in a heap for composting at the yard he rents, and for burning a small heap of non-compostable green waste. The composting of the grass cuttings was, I believe, seen as a waste processing activity, and such storage and composting is ONLY exempt from registration if it is carried out at the place where the green waste is produced or where the compost will be spread.