Waste carrying licence, do we need them?

[Gavin John Hyde]

I got pulled over today by the council waste management jobsworth otherwise known as the Bath branch of the Gestapo.
It seems that I should have had a waste licence to take my scrap metal to the scrapper!
As until it arrives at the scrap yard and is processed it is waste and i should have transfer notes...
When i pulled up at the scrap yard the Gestapo were doing some checks to check compliance with whatever rules they were worried about at the yard, they were accompanied with environmental agency and pretend police officers known as PCSO's. When i brought my metal in, they turned and asked me for a load of paperwork! when i said i don't have it, the pretend police woman told me in her best grown up voice (she barely looked out of her teens) i could be prosecuted and fined!
I knew we should have a licence if taking waste in pursuit of construction related activities such as plaster board, bits of wood and old conduit etc when working in a property.
Hence, why 99% of time i include on the t and c's with customer that they need to get rid of it. i tell them i will have to charge more if they want me to shift it. A licence to take scrap in is a new one.

Anybody else had issues with this or with waste licenses? seems i may have to buy one, not sure if upper or lower tier though... the website is a bit cryptic and i think tries to get you on to the more expensive one.

 

[DPG]

and pretend police officers known as PCSO's. When i brought my metal in, they turned and asked me for a load of paperwork! when i said i don't have it, the pretend police woman told me in her best grown up voice (she barely looked out of her teens) i could be prosecuted and fined!

Bit patronising this - they are only doing their job. And the reason a PCSO needs to be there is presumably because some people give it the atittude when they are asked for the relevant paperwork.

 

[valleybilly]

Most Ex public refuse companys today are big mulit national Contractors n not council run. Go to private small time skip companys as they charge per Kilo & not by half tonne 500kg as the mulits do provided they have a weight bridge that is . Used to go to them Multis n drop 40kg but there min charge is 500kg half a tonne = £98 . Private skip company = £12 say no more as they still do it per Kilo . No brainer