Waste Carrier License????

[rodney12]

Hi all,

Have recently applied for my local councils 'Trusted Trader' scheme and was wondering if I could get a bit of advice.

Basically they have emailed me with the following:

can you please let me know if you hold a waste carrier licence, if you don’t have a licence which facilities do you use for dispose the waste?

The first bit's easy - No i don't have one but was wondering what the best response to the other part would be

currently I keep the copper until i've got loads and a mate of mine buys it off me, wheras the rest.......

Thanks in advance

 

[monkeyelectric]

Hi all,

Have recently applied for my local councils 'Trusted Trader' scheme and was wondering if I could get a bit of advice.

Basically they have emailed me with the following:

can you please let me know if you hold a waste carrier licence, if you don’t have a licence which facilities do you use for dispose the waste?

The first bit's easy - No i don't have one but was wondering what the best response to the other part would be

currently I keep the copper until i've got loads and a mate of mine buys it off me, wheras the rest.......

Thanks in advance

Hi, just tell them you leave all waste with the customer otherwise you may find yourself in trouble cos you're supposed to have a licence for carrying any waste, a friend of mine(landscaper) got fined for not having one, just an extra charge so they get their greedy hands on more of our hard earned money by the way i do the same with my copper too

 

[calv68]

scrap is also considered as waste the council hang about outside scrap yards and pull any van. its worth paying the £80 for a waste carriers licence if you pay regular visits to the scrap yard because the average fine is £300

 

[ian.settle1]

scrap is also considered as waste the council hang about outside scrap yards and pull any van. its worth paying the £80 for a waste carriers licence if you pay regular visits to the scrap yard because the average fine is £300

Does that mean if you return fluorescent tubes to the wholesalers that are no good you will be fined as you don't have a waste carriers licence? even though you have paid a WEEE charge when you purchased the replacement?

 

[calv68]

paying that weee fee allows you to carry them back to your wholesailer for recycling

 

[kfordspark]

Hiya

Can anyone tell me who legaly owns scrap cable from a job, is it the company doing the work or the customer having the work done ????

Thanks for any help

 

[jboy1888]

I run my own company in lighting and was caught out with this as well. I was going back to my suppliers to dispose and pick up some new fluorescents when I got pulled in by traffic police. They had set up a check point with all the powers that be so they could have a go at van drivers seeing what you where not compliant with (i.e people working that shouldn`t be, running on red diesel etc) and to my surprise I was fined for not having a waste carriers licence by SEPA. Had to go out the next day and fork out £300 I think it was on a 5 year licence i gave them my money and about 2 weeks later i got a laminated certificate (designed by the local primary school i think) sent out to me and they had the cheek to ask if i wanted to also purchase the wallet size licence. Not needed to use the licence since.

 

[patricklondon]

scrap is also considered as waste the council hang about outside scrap yards and pull any van. its worth paying the £80 for a waste carriers licence if you pay regular visits to the scrap yard because the average fine is £300

never seen this in the last few years in several yards around london

Can anyone tell me who legaly owns scrap cable from a job, is it the company doing the work or the customer having the work done

Its part of their property so it belongs to them but ive never known any property owner who wanted it

 

[kfordspark]

Is that the same for the new installation any off cuts belongs to customer ?

 

[dragon-av]

Is that the same for the new installation any off cuts belongs to customer ?

Depedns how you charge for cable by the roll, the metre or the length used....

 

[powergrid69]

One would think that by hanging around scrapyards and fining tradesmen for taking their waste for recycling it would encourage people to dump their waste in the woods and end up costing everybody more in the long run. Mind you, if that were true the lanes in the countryside would all look like scrap heaps...oh, wait...

 

[Teddy Lop]

One would think that by hanging around scrapyards and fining tradesmen for taking their waste for recycling it would encourage people to dump their waste in the woods and end up costing everybody more in the long run. Mind you, if that were true the lanes in the countryside would all look like scrap heaps...oh, wait...

It's a scheme invented to gouge working guys while doing nothing whatsoever to address its ostensible motive.

I have a waste transfer licence. I have never been asked to show or prove what I do with waste. There are no vehicles (directly) linked to it, therefore no reason why anybody stopped by the tax-collector roadblocks couldn't just go "yeah this is for Ben innit"

Interestingly though, while genuine but ignorant guys are still being caught by this nasty little scam, I've been waved through the roadblocks. I guess the devious little toads have live number plate tracking and are able to cross reference vehicle ownership with waste licence holders?

Good to see how many police are deployed on this vital work too, y'know, the police who don't have time or resources for so much. My last attempted van break in only a week ago? 2 hours from a call informing me of the attempted theft to a call to inform me the case was closed. amazing efficiency. (no thieves were bothered in the making of this production)