The Environment Agency have handed out a huge fine to a major Evesham flooring contractor following a number of breaches of waste disposal guidelines. Karndean International accepted they had broken industry protocol on at least 9 occasions and pleaded guilty to all charges of failing to comply with packaging waste regulations.
The company, whose offices are registered on Vale Business Park, have been fined a total of £36,000 (£3,300 for each offence committed) and compensation of £3,040. The guidelines broken were the Producer Responsibility Regulations and relate to the flooring company failing to register their business with the Environment Agency or a similar compliance scheme on an annual basis. It emerged that Karndean International had failed to do this for 3 years.
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A Basingstoke skip hire company have gone all out in their attempt to raise money for CLIC Sargent a charity for children with cancer and neonatal unit for premature babies at Basingstoke hospital. The eleven employees aged between 23 and 53 have had photos taken posing naked, carrying out their daily activities in order to sell copies of a calendar to raise money for the local charity. The terrified staff at the skip hire company, were all nervous about having their photographs taken in the nude, but if posing naked was not bad enough, the photographer was their female boss. Read more…
Following the fine for a fatal accident to waste management firm Biffa and a punishment to Electrical Waste Recycling Group for exposing its workforce to toxic fumes during this year the HSE have announced a number of inspections on waste management and skip hire companies throughout 2010 – 2011.
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When fly tippers dumped car and lorry tyres illegally at Shiregreen Cemetery in Sheffield on Easter Monday it wasn’t only local residents and mourners who were disgraced with the fly tippers. Having seen the incident in the local newspaper, The Star, a skip hire company owner from Killamarsh took it upon himself to remove the tyres at his own expense.
Richard Pillinger sent one of his trucks to retrieve the huge pile of dumped tyres from among the gravestones in the cemetery and take them to a local recycling point where they will be reused and made into products such as flooring for children’s play areas. The cost of the clean-up job for Mr Pillinger was around £400, but he was concerned that the tyres weren’t left as a blot on the landscape. He said,
“[I] felt I had to act. I couldn’t let such abysmal behaviour go. It will cost us, but it’s nothing. When people are struggling with grief, the last thing they want to see is fly tipping, it’s disgusting.”
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If you decide to tidy up the garden and have a large amount of garden waste and rubbish that has been hanging round waiting for this very opportunity to throw it away, hiring a skip may well be the most practical option, rather than piling dirty bags overflowing with garden waste and soil covered bricks, rubble and concrete slabs in the back of the car for multiple trips to the local tip.
Similarly if you’re clearing out the garage, attic, kids bedrooms or maybe moving house and have come across all sorts of broken items, outdated and beyond repair pieces of furniture or things set aside to ‘do something with’ one day, you may decide to call on your local reliable skip hire company to come to the rescue and deliver a skip to take away your unwanted junk. Or you may be having building work done, fitting a new kitchen or bathroom or replacing fencing or paving in your garden and need the old items out of the way to make room for the new. Whatever you need to hire a skip for, there are a number of items you may not realise cannot be dumped in a skip along with normal domestic household waste.
The following items cannot be thrown away in a skip and have to be disposed of following the proper environmental agency guidelines:
- asbestos
- WEEE – waste electrical and electronic equipment
- paint
- florescent lamps and light bulbs
- plasterboard
- tyres
- solvents and liquids including waste oil and fuel
A ‘roll on roll off’ skip is for the use of a large quantity of waste. The majority of people hire a roll on roll off skip when they have a large quantity of waste so they do not have to hire out a lot of smaller builders skips. Roll on roll off skips are often used by people having an office or shop refurbishment or are having a clear out of unwanted waste.
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When you undertake any home improvements there will be rubbish that will need be removed and with most local councils now adopting stricter policies on what and how much waste people can dispose of in their rubbish bin, hiring a skip is a sensible option.
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I begin with a tale about a couple that was just about to get hitched who woke up one morning to find eight tonnes of rubble in their driveway. The couple had recently spent £20,000 renovating their home and garden in the month leading up to their wedding in order to get the home of their dreams, but trouble struck when they ended up in a dispute with a skip hire company because the firm said that the couple had overloaded the skip and refused to take it away.
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