Dealing with dumpy bag of waste after tree job

[likeitorlumpit]

But illegal.

 

thought white smoke OK. Black smoke illegal.

We used to do it all the time till the smoke started shutting down the nearby mobile phone mast. The smoke set off the fire system and shut off power.

[skyhuck]

thought white smoke OK. Black smoke illegal.

We used to do it all the time till the smoke started shutting down the nearby mobile phone mast. The smoke set off the fire system and shut off power.

 

Its perfectly legal to burn up to 10 tonnes a day on the site where it was was cut, however its not lawful to take any amount to another site and burn it there, without the required permit from the EA.

[Big 'Ammer]

If its a domestic site and there's no compost heap or whatever, the last rakings up go in the customer's green waste bin.

 

In our area, these are the brown bins.

 

The council are already providing the removal service and the customer is already paying for it anyway.

[renewablejohn]

Have a look on the Permies forum for Hugelkulture. It is growing very rapidly in the US and will eventually take off in UK as more gardeners and allotment holders realise the long term benefits wood can bring as a compost. The beauty about Hugelkulture is that you dont have to shred it or worry about stones etc as it all forms part of the compost mound.

[Fat Boy Slimmed]

Hi guys. I bought myself a shredder at the APF show this year which has proved invaluable takes all the raking's from the tree work and all the hedge cutting go straight through as we'll, I just then mix into the wood chip and sell the whole lot to the power station!!!

[porky]

Make friends with somebody who has a recently planted woodland and spread it roughly around the trees. It acts as a mulch and compost and it's a good way of recycling it.

[smiles]

Has anybody run a tractor driven topper onto the pile to smash it up? been thinking of giving it a go when I get time,realise it won't be a fine mulch,but it might just work!

[daveindales]

As big-ammer said, chip what you can and bung the rest in the customers green bin. I thought that's what the council provide them for.

[skyhuck]

As big-ammer said, chip what you can and bung the rest in the customers green bin. I thought that's what the council provide them for.

 

Round here some councils no longer collect green waste through the winter, only through the grass cutting season.

[Perkins]

Its perfectly legal to burn up to 10 tonnes a day on the site where it was was cut, however its not lawful to take any amount to another site and burn it there, without the required permit from the EA.

 

Have you got a link to that legislation mate?