Environment agency

[monday]

hi as any of you had a letter from the above.about carriying your waste.from jobs or if you have any thing over from jobs that you carry home.

[Ted]

You get stopped in London all the time in a van now by them. You have to have a licence but it is not very much to buy it. Once you have been notified about this you are down on their records. If you don't have the licence and have rubbish in your van you will be fined if caught. A friend of mine got fined I think it was £150 for having three bags of rubbish on the back of his van as he had been stopped previously and his registration and details taken down. It is only £50 a year or something. But it is yet another tax.

[Nigel Walker]

Had a letter 2 weeks ago saying that i needed a waste carriers licence.
It is £140 for 3 years. You have to fill in a form evey time you move any waste - even a bag of rubble.
yes its another one of these hidden taxes

[dig dug dan]

I only found out a few months ago, and I had been carrying waste all the time, from rubble to tree clippings.
You could argue that shreddings is not waste, but they say it has been made from a waste product so therefore it is waste.
I got my licence, and yes, its £140 for three years.
I also need a special licence for storing and selling logs, And woodchip. If I store rubble for crushing in my yard, they say I don't need a licence providing I use it for aggregates, but if it is used as crushed concrete, then I need special permission.
What with the local council stopping you doing anything, and the environment agency making up all these rules, its no wonder there is so much fly tipping, and not much re-cycling.
Until the pikeys are stopped from dumping waste, and carrying it, there is little point in this tax.
I am sure the government one day will just make us give them all our money, and they will give us back "what they think we should have"!!

[lutonlagerlout]

first i have heard of it,i suppose they mean well but why not just take the wheels of the pikey wagons
problem is there is big money in hazardous waste and where there is money there is human nature and greed
i'll take the 5th on the rest of this thread
i expect when they see all the crisp packets in the front of my van i will get fined a million quid or summat
lol
LLL

[monday]

hi is that your business you go on site with that machine and charge people to crush there stone.could you send me your e-mail i would like more infro.

[Dave_L]

As we move large amounts of waste material on an almost daily basis, I'm quite familiar with these practices etc....

I'm all for it, but it doesn't have any effect on the pikeys.......sort of making the whole thing a farce.

[NICKMILNE]

I believe that with lots of rules and regulations it does not encourage people to stay within the law.

If the legislation was removed to allow anyone to tip at a licenced waste transfer station for a nominal fee then flytipping may be reduced.

As is stands tips will not let you in if you are a waste carrier so people therefore fly tip.

Esentially it just makes more paperwork and expense law abiding people.

I am in the process of applying for a Waste Carrier Licence. At the time of writing it is £144 for 3 years followed by £96 for the next 3.

Good Luck

[Tony McC]

In essence, I agree with you, Nick, but there's furtther problems.

What do we do about those thoughtless gits that will simply not pay to dump their crap? An what do we do about out-of-hours tipping?