Waste Carriers License - fines?

jdturk

so whats the actual reason for this crappy license then? It just seems like a money making scheme that will only penialise the decent people and the ones that don't care about fly tipping will do it anyway?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

jdturk wrote: »

so whats the actual reason for this crappy license then? It just seems like a money making scheme that will only penialise the decent people and the ones that don't care about fly tipping will do it anyway?

mmm not carp at all,

in all honestly, it shows that you are a lajitamit company, and NOT a fly by night. if i didnt have my licences and exemptions etc there is no way i would have the contracts i do....

jdturk

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

mmm not carp at all,

in all honestly, it shows that you are a lajitamit company, and NOT a fly by night. if i didnt have my licences and exemptions etc there is no way i would have the contracts i do....

If your main business is the disposal of waste then fair enough but if you are just a normal business that has to get rid of a small amount of waste it just smacks of moneymaking by the government

COOLTRIKERCHICK

jdturk wrote: »

If your main business is the disposal of waste then fair enough but if you are just a normal business that has to get rid of a small amount of waste it just smacks of moneymaking by the government

a big business pays to get their waste picked up, so where ever they get to recycle/dispose of hteir waste has got to have the right licences, as a small business you either pay the local council for business waste bags to get rid of your waste, or you dispose of it oyurself, as soon as you transport your waste you need a carriers licence, and also a pay at the amenity site etc as you are a BUSINESS......not a private household.

jdturk

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

a big business pays to get their waste picked up, so where ever they get to recycle/dispose of hteir waste has got to have the right licences, as a small business you either pay the local council for business waste bags to get rid of your waste, or you dispose of it oyurself, as soon as you transport your waste you need a carriers licence, and also a pay at the amenity site etc as you are a BUSINESS......not a private household.

its still a laughable law that is far to strict, an electrician disposing of a shower should IMO not be subject to having to pay a carrying license


thats life though....one great rip off :cool:

adonis

Wonderful, so when i have some rewiring done later in the year not only will i pay more due to part p regs, the bill will most likely go up to help pay the electricians waste carriers licence.:mad:

mum-of-3

lincroft1710 wrote: »

So does this mean that Currys and Comet - who both offer to take away old electrical appliances when new ones delivered - need waste carrier licences.

They have licences. I used to be a manager of a large retail shop next to comet and most stores have a lock up at the rear of the store which has to be a certain distance away from the building and this contains old white goods etc. They are picked up every so often, and then disposed of correctly.

mqandy

jdturk wrote: »

so whats the actual reason for this crappy license then? It just seems like a money making scheme that will only penialise the decent people and the ones that don't care about fly tipping will do it anyway?

While it seems an obscene amount of paperwork for self employed handy-men who occasionally take bits and bobs from their customers, there was a point to the law...

One of it's main aims is to crack down on fly-tipping in farmers fields, lay-bys, etc. which has been a massive problem for years now.

A farmer I know has had his lane blocked several times by large truck loads of construction waste - and then had to pay to legally dispose of it!

As with so many of Labour's new laws (such as making every third adult register to prove they arnt a pedophile), it's a good idea that's been ill-thought through and effects too many people!

jdturk

mqandy wrote: »

While it seems an obscene amount of paperwork for self employed handy-men who occasionally take bits and bobs from their customers, there was a point to the law...

One of it's main aims is to crack down on fly-tipping in farmers fields, lay-bys, etc. which has been a massive problem for years now.

A farmer I know has had his lane blocked several times by large truck loads of construction waste - and then had to pay to legally dispose of it!

As with so many of Labour's new laws (such as making every third adult register to prove they arnt a pedophile), it's a good idea that's been ill-thought through and effects too many people!

Very ill thought out, and I'm not having a go at you but pray tell how this law is going to stop flytipping?

mqandy

By allowing police and council to inspect waste carriers, find where they are going, etc. I suppose.

Problem is, rules like this only effect people responsible enough to obey them!