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[benedmonds]

The AA spring Newsletter has an article:

Waste carrier's licence.. do I need one? A: Yes!

 

They wrote to the Environmental Agency National policy Team.

 

That's "our" trade bodies advice, end of.. Don't say the AA never do anything for you!

 

You also need an excemption certificate under paragraph 21 of the environmental protection act 1990 to store no more than 1000 tons of chip (available from EA web site)

 

and

 

Have to ensure that the inherent duty of care has been met when transfering waste to someone else.. Farmers, horsey folk etc...

Edited April 7, 2009 by benedmonds

[skyhuck]

 

That's "our" trade bodies advice, end of.. Don't say the AA never do anything for you!

 

 

They might be your "trade bodies" but they ain't mine

 

"end of" how I hate that statement!!!!!!!!!!!!! do you wobble your head around when you say it????????????

 

I think you may have been watching to much Ricky Winfrey, or is it Oprah Springer?? I'm not sure as I don't watch them

[Andy R]

 

"end of" how I hate that statement!!!!!!!!!!!!! do you wobble your head around when you say it????????????

 

[18 stoner]

Ok, i'll put a spanner in the works here. I believe this position statement to be quite straight forward, the trouble is you guys are reading too much into it!

 

" Use in landscape applications. Examples include weed suppressant, decorative woodchip, pathways and arena chip. The material must be stored and applied to land as specified either in an environmental permit or an exemption under Paragraph 7 of Schedule 3. The wood remains waste until it is applied to land.

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Use in animal bedding. Examples include cattle, horse and pet bedding. Untreated waste wood must be stored and used either as specified in an environmental permit or an exemption under Paragraph 15 of Schedule 3. The wood remains waste until incorporated into animal bedding"

 

The above is referring to "Non Virgin timber". You do need a license for moving it.

 

"whole trees and the woody parts of trees including branches and bark derived from forestry works, woodland management, tree surgery and other similar operations (it does not include clippings or trimmings that consist primarily of foliage2);

 

Above is "Virgin timber" therefore no license needed.

 

Hedge trimmings, leaf collections and even reductions mainly made up of foliage come under waste;

 

whole trees and the woody parts of trees including branches and bark derived from forestry works, woodland management, tree surgery and other similar operations (it does not include clippings or trimmings that consist primarily of foliage2);

 

2 The leaves of a tree, or leaves on the stems or branches on which they are growing"

[Dean Lofthouse]

So just dont get pulled after a conifer job.

 

In theory, someone who doesn't do hedge trimming or reductions can get away with not having one.

 

Although 90% of us do hedge trimming and reductions

 

My yard is registered under an exemption, I did that quite willingly as it was free to do so.

 

Having to pay to apply to register we carry woodchip, to me is rediculous and the records of where each load has been tipped is more uneccessary paperwork.

 

We pay enough taxes to surely cover the cost of registering our names on a computer database.

 

For the record, I would have no problem registering if it were free, it's the fact we have to pay to do so which is rather annoying

[benedmonds]

They might be your "trade bodies" but they ain't mine

 

"end of" how I hate that statement!!!!!!!!!!!!! do you wobble your head around when you say it????????????

 

I'm not going to get drawn in to this pointless round and round argument. IMO The AA is the proffesional/trade body for the Arb industry, like it or not.. (I'm not personally a big fan). Their advice after consultation with the EA is we need a licence.. Again IMO, what they say has more weight then a hairy tree cutter, therefore the argument is over... End of disscusion!