Review of Schedule 2 of the Controlled Waste Regulations

[Allsorts]

Defra wrote:Proposal B 4. To classify waste from charity shops and re-use organisations that remove waste from the household waste stream, as household waste, and to exempt such waste from disposal charging.

93. While the CWR do include waste from premises occupied by charities, the status of fund-raising charity shops is unclear. This has resulted in variation in the way different authorities classify waste from these sources and generated more requests to Defra for clarification than almost any other aspect of the CWR. Similarly, some re-use organisations are also registered charities, and so already benefit from free disposal, but others are not.

94. Defra and local authority consultees acknowledge that by collecting or accepting donations from residents that would otherwise end up in the household waste stream these organisations make a significant contribution towards reducing waste, as well as reducing poverty by providing a source of affordable household goods, and, in the case of charity shops, obviously supporting the charitable aims for which they raise funds.

95. Unfortunately people sometimes donate goods that are unsuitable for sale and cannot be repaired, and the organisation must dispose of them. Where the goods originated from a household, Defra believes that they should be treated as ‘household waste’ and should continue to be exempt from disposal charging.

96. Charity shops or re-use groups will be free to continue to accept donations from other sources but only waste arising from domestic sources would automatically qualify for free waste disposal. It will be for each organisation and its local authority to agree on any record-keeping or other procedures necessary to make this work in practice.

Question 20. Do you agree that charity shops and re-use organisations should benefit from free waste disposal?

Question 21. Do you consider that the restriction of free waste disposal to waste originating from a domestic property is practical?

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[Dales-Electronic]

Re: Review of Schedule 2 of the Controlled Waste Regulations

George,

Perhaps the question once again is – why impose a system on those that are required to use it without consultation first, and then having set up the system decide to change it because it doesn’t work. Reality is that we will continue to plot our own course until a workable system appears. As always there are too many vested interests involved to clear the mudded water. Hindsight is wonderful but often used by government as an excuse for poor planning of a project. 8)

[Allsorts]

Re: Review of Schedule 2 of the Controlled Waste Regulations

Fully agreed… They should get me and you in there first and we’d draw-up a regulation set that effectively allowed everyone to do their job without hinderences whilst keeping safety at an utmost concern and weeding out the profiteering large company (lets scrap it gang) who care for nothing to do with the environment or the benefits of others, but are mearly interested in lining their pockets.

[Jackal]

Review of Schedule 2 of the Controlled Waste Regulations

It will never happen George!

Once you entertain having people who know what they are doing in the jobs then the 100 or so government employed current encumbants would be out of the jobs and the gravy train would stop.

Regards to all

Jackal

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