waste carriers licence

[Mr Ed]

I'm told certain local authority's will insist woodchip / timber is waste, unless you can prove you purchased it from the customer. Kinda daft.

[Buzz]

I looked into this two years ago and for what the licence costs you might as well have it !

[Lee Winger]

I was pulled by a bod from the councils enviroment department, he told me point blank tree surgeons should have one

[Yorkshireman]

I'm told certain local authority's will insist woodchip / timber is waste, unless you can prove you purchased it from the customer. Kinda daft.

 

how can you purchase it

you've made it '

its not their woodchipper is it !!!

[PeteB]

Another one I came across three years ago, a guy from the EA told me that every tree surgeon should get a recycling exemption certificate for every site he chips at (unless it is a farm doing under a certain amount every year). The fine was minimal, but to fill yet more paperwork, at an extra admin cost, with no one to read it, store it for a few years then dispose of it in an environmentally friendly manner seems crazy. But not as crazy as he told those present that it was the surgeons duty to find out about this rule, not theirs to highlight it!

[detritus21]

I've read and re-read the site environment agency rubbish and from what I can gather you don't need one but I'd like to try and explain that to some jumped up council official who doesn't understand their own guidelines. If you were going to tip your waste, which seems a bit pointless as most of it can be recycled and the obscene amount you get charged for tipping, then you'd probably need a lisence not from the legal point of view but from the tip requiring you to have one before you can tip. In answer to the original question though I don't have one but then I'm not exactly doing much in the way of tree work other than as favours (paid) for friends till I'm all legit.

[Mr Ed]

The EA (and defra for that matter) should have to have some kind of licence, or even better a penalty (preferably a good flogging) for the vast volume of bullshit paperwork they produce.

[madmatt]

And am In right in thinking thats coming from someone who views the Agency from the outside? Hell fire if you saw their paperwork on the inside of the organisation........

[Andy Collins]

how can you purchase it

you've made it '

its not their woodchipper is it !!!

 

I think, from what I've heard somewhere, that logs, woodchip and even waste products are all the property of the landowner, and as such they are responsible for ensuring that all waste and by-products from any works carried out on their property is disposed of thru the correct channels. And they technically could face the fines/court for not checking how their waste is disposed of, ie if it ended up being fly-tipped.

We cant really moan about this, we crave credibility as a profession, try and distance ourselves from the "pikies" for want of a better word, then we moan about a bit of paperwork.

[Yorkshireman]

I think, from what I've heard somewhere, that logs, woodchip and even waste products are all the property of the landowner, and as such they are responsible for ensuring that all waste and by-products from any works carried out on their property is disposed of thru the correct channels. And they technically could face the fines/court for not checking how their waste is disposed of, ie if it ended up being fly-tipped.

We cant really moan about this, we crave credibility as a profession, try and distance ourselves from the "pikies" for want of a better word, then we moan about a bit of paperwork.

 

Andy I'm not moaning as i have stated I have applied for a wcl, however i thinks its crazy !! another means of collecting tax !

 

ps they have replied, stating that they cant meet the 35 day criteria & need an extension, saying that if we dont agree they may fail our application

 

yet more Government targets = misuse of power to ensure they appear to be good at their job, also they 'the ea' dont fail a target requirement

 

A joke i was recently told

 

what key can get past any lock

A piKEY