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Re: Disposing of old appliances
Hard to understand why Tyne & Wear is £90.00.
A waste carriers license is administered and issued by the Environment Agency, that is to say central government even though you apply to a regional office.
I have mine in front of me as I type. A new registration is £140.00 ( or it was in Dec 2006 when I applied for mine)
It runs for three years and the renewal fee on the documents I have is £93.00 rising to £96.00 on Oct 1st 2006.
You may be getting the renewal fee mixed up with the new registration fee Bob.
I don’t uplift complete machines but do a fair few WMA drum rear halves. I wait until I have amassed 10 or 12 then take them to the nearest certified waste disposal site. Until recently that was in Rochdale but they no longer accept trade waste there so I now have to go to Newton Heath in Manchester.
My last bill for dumping 10 WMA drum rear halves and a complete WM outer drum was £4.50
Jim.
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get your scrap man to leave you with a skip, free of charge, they all do if you ask them! you can then collect all the machines you want. the machines don’t become scrap until you decide you can’t fix them. then put them in your skip, and you dont need any waste carriers stuff, because its not waste until you decide it is!!
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In many ways I agree with Andy and the concept is correct. However, having dealt with the EA over the last year putting together a producer compliance scheme with John Hopwood and having been subject to a surprise visit from them yesterday. I would just say this, make sure you know your stuff. Whilst the oversight of the WEEE directive is the province of district offices, it is the local officer that you have to please. So if you have a large WEEE area you are likely to have more than one local officer and with it more than one way of doing it. An example for us is that one area wants the skips covered and one area doesn’t. Go with the flow because getting it wrong means – up to six months in jail, a £50K fine or both 😯
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Items intended for repair and return to use are not regarded as waste. However,
once it becomes clear that items are beyond repair and hence are to be discarded they
should be regarded as WEEE. From this point they should be dealt with in accordance
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It looks like it will become increasingly tempting to go out late at night to a remote country lane and chuck scrap appliances in a ditch. Taking a van load of scrap washing machines to the scrap metal merchant used to be called recycling, now it’s a criminal offence. 👿
so am I right in saying that if I get someone to collect the appliances from my house and i get a receipt for them to prove Im not dumping then i wont need a waste carriers licence then im opperating within WEEE.
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How do they get to your house and also will the person you give them to dispose of them correctly
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not sure where all you guys live, but if you live in the south or southwest, speak to Dean at coopers wholesale who will collect and deal with all appliances correctly. they are based in Dorchester 01305 260905. i have spoke to him and he said he is looking for more customers to build up more collections, that way he can return more frequent.
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I’m getting seven machines picked up today by a registered waste company but while getting them ready for pick up a query came to me.
If (like me) you work from home, do we not need another licence to keep the machines at our property ready for pick up?
Apologies if its already been covered.TC
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only hazardous waste like fluor tubes, batteries & refrigeration requires you to register your site.
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Wrong answer – to store any WEEE you are required to have a Waste Management License Exemption under Para 41. (Environmental permitting (England & Wales) Regulation 2007.
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How do scrap metal merchants comply with regulations.They take white goods and refrigeration etc
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Scrap metal merchants have a waste management licence and have to record there input and output of WEEE….The excemption that Dales electronic is referring to is Paragraph 49.This allows you to store but NOT treat WEEE at your premises.If you treat WEEE (ie repair) you will need to register under paragraph 50 and keep records of your waste and what you refurbish….HTH.
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