waste license anyone?

[trowelmonkey1]

had a letter drop on my doormat this week from the environment agency telling me that spot checks were happening in my area and that if i carried ANY kind of waste in my van then i need a license at the cost of £152 for 3 years.

this is news to me and never heard it mentioned before, anyone else got one?

 

[Alastairreid]

Its the legitimate peeps who get targeted as well tm.
i had to get one a couple of yrs back only because i was doing la work and the paperwork had to be in order.

Dont know about you or any of the other guys but i havent ever heard of anyone being stopped or prosecuted by the environment agency for not having one.

 

[1john]

never had one, never been told i need one, never been spot checked, never been un-spot checked.

Never going to get one, i have to pay to get rid of the waste from plastering, they will not let me van in the tip, the local tip will not accept the waste as it is a 'building bi-product' so whilst i am driving this stuff all around the place trying to dispose of it they want me to pay for the pleasure of that too. the cheeky little chappies, i dont think so.

 

[Biglou]

Like you say trowelmonkey anyone who carries any kind of waste atall is meant to have one as far as I know.

So if I go to my old grannies house to take her old broken washing machine to the tip for her as she cant because shes old and dying. This means I should have a waste transfer license technically.

Its all a load of Boll***s like everything else in this country.

I think if the rubbish is yours though, your allowed to "transport" it without a license. (I think then again I may be wrong).

If this is the case then I say screw em and If you ever get spot checked which you probably wont. Then just say the rubbish is from your house?

LOU

 

[1john]

or say it isnt rubbish, "yeah i use the set plaster/render/bonding/hardwall (you get the idea) for pointing into holes, none of it is waste"

 

[Biglou]

or say it isnt rubbish, "yeah i use the set plaster/render/bonding/hardwall (you get the idea) for pointing into holes, none of it is waste"

Smash it up, throw it on the wall. Pebbledash the pikee way (joke)

 

[Micilin]

AFAIk this has been the law since the early nineties, but never heard of anyone being done.

 

[jono_h]

I 'treated' myself to a licence last year, just to be certain that I was sorted if I got stopped. However like most people I've never been stopped.

Additionally you're supposed to fill out a waste transfer form whenever you carry waste to show what you've got, where it's from and where it's going, and this has to be signed by the customer. I've never done this and can't see how I'm supposed to get a customer to sign when a lot of the time they aren't around.

It's a load of rubbish(!) but you can be sure that if you get stopped you'll end up with the jobsworth PC who wants everything in order.

 

[tfish]

No one can spot check your van except the police.

Define 'waste' , you cant.

This country is ****ed it gets worse by the week

 

[noseall]

I don't bother transporting waste as it is not particularly an efficient way of working for me.

We either use skips or grab-loaders.

 

[trowelmonkey1]

good replies guys, not often i carry much to be honest, pretty much all of my work is local and i only take it as far as home where i store it until i have enough to get it taken away.

does seem like some free money making scheme for the environment agency to fund themselves, i mean what the heck do they have to do with the waste disposal/recycling process anyway? and what impact on the environment does it have driving it around? none so far as i can see.

 

[Micilin]

IIRC the rationale is to stop fly tippers by making sure that any waste being carried has got a legitimate disposal destination, and I suppose cut down on waste being taken home and put in wheelie bins and generally make us think a bit more about waste in genreal

Sounds like a great scheme in Bureaucrat's Heaven but here on Earth ......

 

[trowelmonkey1]

yeah, i can see where they're coming from now but still...

i take it you don't have one then mikey?

 

[Micilin]

No, I usually use the skips on sites to get rid of mine, usually the agent does not mind a couple of bags of rubbish now and again.

Though I have been aware of it from my damp proofing days where we used to hack off as well as re plaster, I have never met anyone with one! Not having worked for 6 months, I'm not likely to rush out any time soon to get one either!!!!!!!

 

[Micilin]

What is the fine?

I've never chanced red diesel either, and won't, although I could have had barrels of it for free down the years.

I've never been dipped and often wonder what is the break even for fiddle vs fine??