Waste Carrier Registration

[Dave OCD]

Leave waste with the client, that's what I do.

Me too, except I once had a miserable old sh!te ring me a couple of days after completing a job [all done spot on] and demanded I return immediately to remove the two old Wylex units that I'd left in a black bag for him to dispose of. Some people eh !

 

[NDG Elecs]

Me too, except I once had a miserable old sh!te ring me a couple of days after completing a job [all done spot on] and demanded I return immediately to remove the two old Wylex units that I'd left in a black bag for him to dispose of. Some people eh !

Haha! You should have told him they are worth loads to some 'collectors' and he should get them on ebay!! Or I would have said it's your old equipment and your property. I have explained to clients in the past about the Env Agency licence and that I could be fined for taking people's waste. They are usually cool about it. If they are not I just hoy it in their bin on the way out!

 

[sparksburnout]

What a load of absolute bloody nonsense. No doubt some EU crap, we won't have to bother soon. Just leave it at the bottom of the garden the local eastern EU guys will come and collect it, and of course they will be fully qualified and certificated to do so. I bet we won't be able to move on the roads soon for EA vans chasing us everywhere and undertaking spot checks.........

 

[PEG]

There is a difference between "waste" and "scrap". The waste carriers licence,which would apply to any tradesman,carrying waste generated partly or wholly as a result of paid work.

There is a separate "scrap collection licence" which applies to the collection and transport of scrap,from others,for reward or as part of a business.

If the scrap is yours,which it becomes when the customer allows,and you are not sharing or handing over the cash,then you can weigh it in,in the same way any member of the public can,subject to the recyclers' registration policy,and any HMRC directives concerning income/benefits in kind etc.

There are many,many scare stories,mainly generated by those with an agenda,regarding rules,regs,that are supposedly forced upon us,by either a nanny-state,or more recently,the EU...

Many are attempts at curing problems,the people i refer to above,are whinging about also. Some are safety related,others are purely financial.

A good example is the HGV industry. To look at what is required,as driver,including all the add-ons,licences and tickets...you would not bother.

I have kept my licence,as now and again,i require to use or drive such items. It may be a low-loader,crane,access platform or horsebox.

I escape many of the requirements,employed drivers have,as the law allows this. There are many exemptions,such as demonstration,repair,emergency etc which if apply,negate further permissions.

...So cheer up...i have had very little medical training,and never studied as a doctor...but i cut the cord,on both my sons,and i haven't been arrested yet :coolgleamA:

 

[Dave OCD]

Haha! You should have told him they are worth loads to some 'collectors' and he should get them on ebay!! Or I would have said it's your old equipment and your property. I have explained to clients in the past about the Env Agency licence and that I could be fined for taking people's waste. They are usually cool about it. If they are not I just hoy it in their bin on the way out!

He was a proper self important t### mate, I did tell him I was too busy to drop everything and pander to his nonsense. He was one of those older people who thinks everybody should be running round for him, even said help myself to tea provided I made him one at the same time when I was working there !:smile5:

 

[NDG Elecs]

He was a proper self important t### mate, I did tell him I was too busy to drop everything and pander to his nonsense. He was one of those older people who thinks everybody should be running round for him, even said help myself to tea provided I made him one at the same time when I was working there !:smile5:

Put his salt in his sugar bowl when he's not looking.... That'll get him, although you would be long gone before he sussed!

 

[Dave OCD]

Put his salt in his sugar bowl when he's not looking.... That'll get him, although you would be long gone before he sussed!

He'd be waiting for his next visitor to make him more tea. :smile5:

 

[Marvo]

Can't believe you need some kind of license to scrap stuff....thankfully there's no requirements where I am. I was pleasantly surprised the other day when I took my old copper immersion heater cylinder to the scrap yard and got about 1.2K cash for it. It's only about 60 quid in UK currency but it funded a very nice extended lunch .

 

[sparksburnout]

Can't believe you need some kind of license to scrap stuff....thankfully there's no requirements where I am. I was pleasantly surprised the other day when I took my old copper immersion heater cylinder to the scrap yard and got about 1.2K cash for it. It's only about 60 quid in UK currency but it funded a very nice extended lunch .

You don't Marvo, its just a load of politically correct (s)crap that no one with any sense takes any notice of. Round my way, you just have to show it the pavement for a few hours and some fully licensed, insured and council registered/monitored eastern EU type will come and kindly relieve you of it. Good job we have these folks now or we would have mountains of illicit scrap filling our garages and spare rooms and not be able to sleep at night worrying about what we are going to do with it all. They even take the kids bikes if they leave them lying about making the place look untidy.

 

[snowhead]

You don't Marvo, its just a load of politically correct (s)crap that no one with any sense takes any notice of. Round my way, you just have to show it the pavement for a few hours and some fully licensed, insured and council registered/monitored eastern EU type will come and kindly relieve you of it. Good job we have these folks now or we would have mountains of illicit scrap filling our garages and spare rooms and not be able to sleep at night worrying about what we are going to do with it all. They even take the kids bikes if they leave them lying about making the place look untidy.

I used to get 3 or 4 vans a day come around looking for scrap.
Now it's not even 1 a week since the bottom fell out the scrap market.

 

[sparksburnout]

I used to get 3 or 4 vans a day come around looking for scrap.
Now it's not even 1 a week since the bottom fell out the scrap market.

You must live in a posh area then! pavements still free of odd bits of metal here........

 

[PEG]

You must live in a posh area then! pavements still free of odd bits of metal here........

...In Manchester...we call those "Grids" and "bronze statues" :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Vitesse]

I haven't scrapped T&E recently. I can't be ar*sed to strip it. I have probably got from a recent rewire about 300m's in total, about 200m of 2.5mm and the rest 1.5mm. What should price should be asking for from a scrapper? I am not that bothered but in reality but the more beer tokens the better!

 

[NDG Elecs]

I haven't scrapped T&E recently. I can't be ar*sed to strip it. I have probably got from a recent rewire about 300m's in total, about 200m of 2.5mm and the rest 1.5mm. What should price should be asking for from a scrapper? I am not that bothered but in reality but the more beer tokens the better!

Last time I weighed some unstripped in, it was around £10 per rubble bag. That was a while ago though. Stripped is a good bit more, but a pita to do!

 

[uksparks]

I always leave all waste with the client including all scraps of cable. My wheely bin fills up too quick without all my customers rubbish too!