Waste Carriers License - fines?

Savvy_Sue

matchmade wrote: »

I also don't see why normal householders should be exempt: they transport all sorts of waste, including asbestos, to the local tip or leave it in their backyards all the time - why aren't they forced to pay for a licence?

I noticed that our local council is now saying that eg your old kitchen units aren't domestic waste so you can no longer load it into the back of your car and take it to the local tip for disposal.

I'm not going to go there with whether we want Big Brother telling all private households to throw out any (very) old soft furnishings / requiring us all to have annual safety checks on our boilers / making smoke alarms mandatory.

DebbieR

I know this is an old thread that's been resurrected, but I've just come across it and I'm a bit worried as my OH is self employed as an alarm installer(has been for 25 years). Should he have a licence? He runs the business from home and I put any bits of cardboard and paper in the fortnightly recycling - there's not much, just about a carrier bag full every fortnight. If he takes old systems out he either keeps them to use for spares or they're kept in the garage and we hire a skip once or twice a year. The rag and bone man usually raids this BTW, are we also breaking the law letting him do this, I wouldn't dare ask him if he's got a licence lol!
We've never had any correspondence from the council or anywhere else telling us we need a licence, I always thought it was for waste carriers like skip hire companies. If I applied for one now would this set off some sort of chain of events where they'd ask us to provide paperwork for previous years?

leveller2911

patman99 wrote: »

These licenses are not a rip-off. They have been £154 for a 3-year license
since their introduction back in the early '90s.


When you consider a company only needs one WCL regardless of how many
vehicles/staff they have, then it it is no that costly..

I know this was an old thread but its still relevant so, having a WCL won't stop people fly-tipping.Think about it, if the licence is £154-00 for 3 years that mean if they are stopped whilst carrying waste then they will be allowed to carry on with their journey but it doesn't mean they will drive straight to the nearest waste tip, they can drop it off anywhere they wish.
Currently a builders skip around here is about £200 +vat so if some scumbag wants to make £200 rather than pay for a skip he will. Charge the customer £200 for a skip and drop the waste off in a lay-by somehwere.The WCL scheme has not stopped fly-tipping and it never will, its just a revenue raising scheme.

I have one & if someone wants some waste removed & I am to busy to do
it, I get a mate to do it knowing he will be covered by my license.

There lies one of the many problems, the WCL (if it could be made to work) should only cover you and not every Tom,!!!!!! and Harry you ask to do the job when your too busy.How do you know everyone who carries waste under your licence is honest and wouldn't be tempted to drop off the waste at the local farm?........

I have been trading for over 15 years(self employed Joiner/Carpenter) and I have never had a WCL. I have a workshop and a builders skip (contract) to get rid of my waste.I take the waste from the job site to my workshop and then into the skip and that is as secure a system as any WCL.That said I have never been stopped so in 15 years and to be honest there is very little chance of being stopped and asked to produce a WCL.

As others have mentioned why should Joe Public be exempt from a WCL? are they any more honest than us?......;)