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Re: WT741G /2 Burning smell from pcb
Just because one is shorting a little wont necessarily always stop it from working, but if you leave one that is shorting too long it will blow your board…
George
Re: Closing Down forever
Sorry to hear the bad news .. Take care .. Hope you get something sorted soon.
All the best
GeorgeRe: Hotpoint RLA34 Not getting cold
Ok guys thanks…. I wonder what Hotpoint charge for replacing/repairing this it is less than 5 years old and is only worth £180 new
George
Re: GPRS Credit Card terminals
Just a curiosity question .. What would you do if the card was declined and they had no cheques or cash?
George
Re: hotpoint wd440
First check the module connections and the continuity of the cable running from the module to the interlock. Check the module for blown tracks too.
EMW can repair the modules.
Replacement module is C00254535
George
Re: Waste Carriers Licence
You may find this useful .. or otherwise confusing..
Re: Waste Carriers Licence
Here is an answer from the EA regarding my complaint to them… I have since been in touch with Cormac Quigley who is named at the end of this response to whom I requested he define some of the more vague responses.. he will respond in an email in a few days after he has consulted his legal team regarding other questions I put to him.
EA wrote:Your complaint regarding the registration charge associated with exemption T11, on the repair and refurbishment of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), has been passed to me for response. Please note that the Environment Agency only regulates waste in England and Wales. Both Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate rules and their own regulators.
I’m sorry you feel aggrieved at the charge for the registration of this exemption.
You seem to be indicating that all businesses that carry out the repair of used EEE will either need an environmental permit or to register a T11 exemption. This is not the case. Only businesses that handle used EEE that has been discarded and hence become waste will need to comply with the legislation that applies to waste e.g. the need to register a T11 exemption. Used EEE that can be repaired and used in the same manner for which it was manufactured is clearly not a waste. I would refer you to the various scenarios in our guidance (which Steven White referred to in his e-mail to you dated 27 May 2010) which provide examples of when used EEE is or is not considered to be a waste. It is a commercial decision whether a business decides to deal with waste or not and that decision has to take the subsequent financial and regulatory implications into account.
In respect of the charge, this exemption has been provided by the Government in accordance with the rules laid down in the European WEEE Directive. However, it is also a requirement of the Directive that we carry out an inspection before any such exemption is registered. We are also required by Government to recover our costs by levying fees and charges on those we regulate. This stems from the “polluter pays principle” which is a fundamental element of the Waste Framework Directive. When deciding the level of charges we have to ensure that our income covers our expenditure in regulating sites. The current charge covers our costs in registering the exemption and in carrying out the inspection over a three year period as required by the legislation. In fact over the three year period this current charge is considerably less than the charge we applied to the previous paragraph 40 exemption under the old regime.
In setting our charges we must follow the principles set out in “The Fees and Charges Guide” published by HM Treasury. The charges are set nationally, and we consult on those charges and take into account the comments received. The final scheme is then subject to approval by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Each year we review our charges and we consult on our proposals in September each year on our charges for the subsequent financial year. I would encourage you to make your views known during the next consultation which is due in September 2010. In order for you to do so I have asked our Finance Department to add your details to their consultation database which should ensure that you are notified automatically when we consult on these revised charges.
I hope this adequately addresses your complaint and helps to explain the reasoning behind the exemption charge. Should you want to discuss this issue further, please contact our lead on waste exemptions, Cormac Quigley either via e-mail at: cormac.quigley@environment-agency.gov.uk or telephone on 07909 532025.
Re: Waste Carriers Licence
Yes… in short what they are saying is: If you are going to rebuild it and make a profit so we want some of that profit… If you are going to strip it for spares and those spare are worth money so we want some of that money…. If you are going to scrap the machine then we don’t want any of the money because we would be seen to be profiting from an environmentally unfriendly act.
George
Re: Waste Carriers Licence
This is going to the EA tomorrow… Please feel free to comment… Also please let me know if you require anything adding to it on your behalf … Even if you wish your company name adding to a tag-line of Complainants:
Dear Chris C Brown (Complaints and Commendations Co-ordinator),
Please be aware that I George Laugharne (of Allsorts (Shotton), Secondhandheaven.co.uk, and Custombuilduk) in complaining in reference to the T11 Permit exemption, am complaining on my own behalf and on behalf of many other businesses of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, collectively known as the United Kingdom and dominions of the UK that may be governed by the said T11 regulation. For this reason please be descriptive in responses and relate the information given to all dominions governed by said regulation. For ease of communication, Allsorts, Secondhandheaven.co.uk & Custombuilduk, will take ownership of the complaint and forward responses from the EA to other entitled complainants via web media, thereafter replenishing the complaint with information, statements, questions and requests as so furnished.
I wish to thank you for your timely response regarding the complaint that was instigated relating to the T11 exemption. I also wish to furnish you with more information to help or enable you and your associates to understand the reason for my complaint.
I have been in business at Allsorts (Secondhandheaven.co.uk) in Shotton in Deeside since November of 1999. I have serviced the community locally in Deeside and its surrounding areas with secondhand goods of all descriptions (furniture, appliances, parts, small electricals, services, repairs, etc. etc.) since the start of trading. These goods have been in the manner of repaired, repairable, refurbished, recycled, re-usable, reclaimed, as well as new and secondhand. If it is broke, repair it. “Where Recycling Means Being Natural” is our slogan. I have always dealt with goods the way I have dealt with life, and that is ‘with the environment in mind’, don’t waste anything. I hate waste, and that is waste of any form, be-it food, paper/cardboard, serviceable parts, metals etc. If it can be recycled, re-used, refurbished, or whatever other description you wish to label it by, then just do it. The parts that are reclaimed from these recyclable units are returned to use in either the same or another fashion, mostly in the UK, but if not, then at least somewhere else in the world, these parts are preventing the need for re-manufacture of another of that same part, and in turn preventing wastage of yet more of the earths resources.
It is only recently that I found out about the T40 and its replacement the T11. I found out about the Permit and exemptions accidentally whilst searching for information on an act that would be governed by a similar permit or regulation. I then read about the £840 fee to become exempt from the T11 Permit. This made me furious, so I contacted the EA local office to request further information and to complain.
The T11 fee makes a mockery of all that the EA purports to hold dear to its heart, in that it actively entices fly-tipping. Effectively, the EA can be seen in these circumstances to be taxing and therefore actively discouraging any individual or company that wishes to recycle, refurbish, or repair rather than destroy, waste, landfill, pollute. This sort of tax / fee should not be applied to small businesses that are finding it harder and harder to carry-on doing the business that they have done for many years.
By the nature of the work we do, we are environmentally friendly. We actively discourage landfill, we actually discourage fly-tipping with free collection services etc., and we actively encourage the re-use of all materials that, within reason, it is viable to recycle or reclaim for other purposes; yet due to the nature of the way that the T11rules have been set out it invites polluting of our air, waters and land by scrapping of appliances and machinery (both domestic and commercial) and during this process of destroying our planet so many valuable resources, machine-parts and recyclables ( glass, gold, plastics, copper, aluminium, zinc and other metals) that otherwise could be reclaimed or re-used or recycled if the machines were to be refurbished, repaired, or reconditioned, rather than scrapped, are lost. Notwithstanding this, there is an additional effect of the carbon-footprint caused by the then imports of sub-standard replacement goods that are being flooded into the country from eastern Europe and China.When a machine goes to scrap to avoid a T11 FEE or WASTE TAX (both causing similar habitual effects), to gain funds (Gypsies), or for whatever other reason that could be contemplated, the circuit boards and some other parts within these machines (Starter capacitors, Mains filters, Batteries) and other parts cause toxic pollutants to be released into the environment (lead, acid, mercury, plastics, noxious fumes, gases, etc. etc.)
Do not scrap it, recycle, re-used, repair, refurbish, etc. and then recycle the waste left-overs ….oh no wait! we had better scrap it, otherwise we must pay for a £840 permit.
The T11 affects many businesses in its current form (Secondhand shops, Appliance repairers, Boiler repairers, Electricians, Gas fitters, Plumbers, Mechanics, Jewellers). In fact, if we wished to be literal, it applies to any business that wishes to repair and electrical item rather than waste it. We are therefore of the consideration that the current form of the T11 exemption is unworkable, counter to its proposed invent, and therefore needs amendment, to either dis-involve these and other businesses from the need to require a permit, or, to henceforth dis-include the £840 fee from the exemption. Trading Standards Officers and HSE Officers call to shops on a semi-regular basis but do not charge fees for doing so. we do not feel that loading the fee onto businesses that are not requesting that the EA gives them a call is ethical. Instead, a fine could be instituted for businesses that are found to be scrapping the machines containing the offending PCB or other infringments; it is not fair-practice to levy the charge to those that are trying to help the environment.
