Having garden waste taken away in Kirkby-in-Ashfield? Why anyone removing waste from your home should be a registered waste carrier, how to check, and what fly-tipping could cost you.
If they take waste away from your home as part of the job, yes, they should be registered.
Ask for the registration number and check it on the Environment Agency's public register.
Yes. Householders have a duty of care to check their waste goes to a registered carrier.
To a licensed recycling or composting site, where it is turned into compost or soil improver.
Some, if you have a garden waste collection. Large clearances usually need taking away.
Yes, from clearances and regular rounds across Kirkby-in-Ashfield and nearby.
Anyone who takes waste away from your home as part of a job, including garden waste, should be registered as a waste carrier with the Environment Agency. As the householder you have a duty of care to check, because if your waste is fly-tipped and traced back to you, you can be fined even though someone else dumped it.
Checking is free and quick. Ask for the waste carrier registration number, then look it up on the Environment Agency's public register of waste carriers. A genuine business will be happy to give you the number and to tell you where the waste is going, usually a licensed recycling or composting site.
In Kirkby-in-Ashfield and across Ashfield, garden clearances, hedge cuttings and lawn rounds all produce green waste. Some of it can go in your own garden waste bin, but large clearances are often more than a bin can take, which is when a gardener taking it away makes sense.
Be wary of very cheap offers to "take it all away" from someone with no registration, no address and cash only. Those are the loads that end up dumped in lanes and field gateways. We take garden waste to proper recycling sites and are happy to show you how.
Anyone removing waste from your home should be registered.
Householders can be fined if their waste is fly-tipped.
Ask for the registration number and look it up on the Environment Agency register.
Garden waste should go to a licensed recycling or composting site.
More than a garden bin can take, so it needs taking away properly.
No registration, no address, cash only and a too-cheap price.
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