What do councils expect re fly tipping putting silly restrictions on all the tips and cutting refuse collections to fortnightly with same size bins. I don't condone it but not rocket science. I use the commercial side of our local tip. Quite reasonable and build it into price of job. As for waste carriers license if I get stopped with 7 old doors for a job they have just been bought or reclaimed for restoration and possibly used at my house. No further comment. A lot of these situations people seem to land themselves in it with comments when burden of proof is on the authorities. See it all the time on police shows. Not sure how this bloke would have blagged though. Perhaps collected these for an art project/ collection he was pursuing at home?
Going back 15 years or more the Slough tip was very good, started off at £32 a ton minimum charge 12 quid, over several years it quickly rose to 60 80 90 with a minimum charge of £30. A good commercial waste tip, although they did profiteer a little. All this happened during the influx of Polish tradesmen, so what happened was the Polish dumped in the domestic part of the site using their cars, so SBC introduced number plate recognition cameras, so the Poles fly tipped, often in the car park of the local Wickes store. I think by trying to profiteer they did miss a trick, I'm told by the local waste collectors (in Cornwall) that it's currently £130 a ton here with a minimum charge of one ton. So, from what I've been told, a decorating job, 2 bin bags of waste, will cost me £130 to dump at the nearest commercial waste site (15 miles away), plus of course the cost of a waste carriers license.
And even the respectful, most honest people would have to seriously think of the alternative! That's why it is self-defeating.
I'm going online tomorrow to organise a waste carriers licence, I'll update on the cost. But even so, for a couple of bags, is a customer really going to pay £130 for disposal, one of us is going to filter it into our domestic waste, I would have thought.
At st.neots household recycling center the staff like a cash donation from builders and the like, the going rate must be cheap as they are quite busy. Bedford is a totally different set up , and would quiz someone over their own old bath, also enforcing no return for a month
Seems strange that some waste products can be identified as two different classifications of rubbish. Examples being, - If a householder scapes wallpaper from their wall, that scrap paper is household rubbish, but if they pay a tradesman to carry or dispose of it, then it becomes commercial waste. Or more ridiculous is grass or hedge clippings being labelled as commercial waste. My area there is currently a free recycling centre that seems to work extremely well. Long may it continue
OK I'm now registered as an 'upper tier waste carrier and broker', upper tier mind, not lower tier. Cost for 3 years is £154, plus an additional £5 for a handy wallet sized copy registration doc. Very easy process, took 5 minutes online.
So, as we thought, - all your licence allows you to do is put the waste into your van and drive to the council recycling, where they will again take more money off you, but repeatedly? Silly when you think of it.
Did you seriously pay the fiver for the wallet card?! You're telling me you've paid to help make their job easier should you get pulled!
Hehe, I hadn't thought of that. But make no mistake, when I do get pulled, I'll 'forget' that I've got that little card and string them along for 15 minutes at least.
You will probably never get pulled over and checked now that you have paid for a licence. But it would be fun to give blank looks and ask “what do you mean by a licence? What are they for?” while you show them the back of your van full of rubbish.
Some local authorities allow van permits for domestic waste. I have one. It allows me 12 trips over the course of 2 years. Cost is free.
Our local recycling centre doesn't accept commercial waste or allow vans, it has however been running that scheme for several years whereby a van driver can apply for a free licence allowing a limited number of visits, it states that the waste must be household waste. I haven't taken it up in the past because I was concerned about driving onto council controlled premises with a van full of rubbish and not having a waste carriers licence, I will apply for one now.
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