Asbestos collection

[robs1]

We have about two tonnes of big six asbestos to get rid of, local firm want around 190 a tonne plus 390 for a ro ro container, is that a decent price ?

 

[grainboy]

Small tonnage, will always be expensive,
I pay from £950 for bin, depending on mileage including first 3 tons, then approx £190 ton there after,
Ask for wait and load, may be cheaper,

 

[hoyboy]

Dig a hole

 

[Nearly]

Join in with a couple of neighbours.
Everyone has a secret stack.

Ours came from converting buildings so we decided that having a piece of paper showing where the stuff had gone was very useful.
Localish skip company took 12t for £2k inc vat about 4 years ago.

 

[quattro]

dig a hole in a stone yard bury it and put your money in ready mix and concrete over it

 

[essex man]

This material is considered hazardous so digging a hole will ensure no one else comes in contact with it...clearly the right thing to do in every sense

 

[Andrew]

Make sure your paperwork is spot on and you have receipts for PPE used etc.

HSE like to monitor collections and visit afterwards…….

 

[grainboy]

This material is considered hazardous so digging a hole will ensure no one else comes in contact with it...clearly the right thing to do in every sense

Until, in the future you require a pipe or cable across the yard, you or someone then digs through it,
Seen it happen,

 

[Nearly]

We decided by the time we'd hired a machine big enough, to lose it deep enough, to not be seen again, we might as well pay the money.

 

[Caesar Cigar]

Disposable suits, preferably a P3 full face respirator, sturdy gloves and visqueen for double wrap. Might as well do the job right… once!

 

[Still Farming]

A Management Survey of the Farm and its Buildings/Structures?

An Asbestos Management Plan and/or an Asbestos Register in place?

Analyst /tests reports etc etc as Commercial premises statutory Law with HSE and only time Farm Assurance schemes most probably?

Managing and working with asbestos. Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. Approved Code of Practice and guidance

This Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) applies to all work with asbestos and explains the requirements of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.

www.hse.gov.uk

 

[Gerbert]

Until, in the future you require a pipe or cable across the yard, you or someone then digs through it,
Seen it happen,

It's not a matter of will you run into the buried asbestos again, but when. I know someone who buried a bunch of it and 20 years or so down the line he figured he'd set up a new shed in that place. They ground had to be surveyed, ground samples deep down to figure out the foundation needs, boy was he praying they didn't hit the asbestos.

 

[robs1]

I had some tests done a few years ago on a shed I put up around the time sheets changed to non asbestos and one we had put up slightly earlier to check, while I would love to bury it I don't want it to come back and bite me or my successors so want to do it right , by paying a grand for someone else to bury it

 

[Caesar Cigar]

A grand well worth being spent!

The problem with random burying (of hazardous waste) is it will leave a mark and some idiot (Indiana jones for example) won’t be able to stop themselves investigating. Great documentary on the cavernous Onkala in Finland for nuclear waste below.

When I was buying the farm I asked the old boy if there was anything buried anywhere I needed to be aware of and he replied “thirty cats at the headland between the two burns”.

 

[How Dairy]

Sorry to hijack but on this subject, are there grades that differentiate? I am taking a small shed down at the moment with panels of what I'd describe as cement board rather than the brittle old asbestos. We are grinding the bolts and taking whole sheets out to minimise any risk. They are in a stack and I'd like to find a home for them. Do you pay less if the asbestos content is lower?

 

[grainboy]

Lowest grade is Chrysotile, commonly found in most forms of corrugated sheeting, used up to the late 90s in Big six,
This is non notifiable, non licensed work,
If you have flat boards, could or could not be Chrysotile, possibly AIB which then becomes notified and licensed,

 

[SilliamWhale]

Until, in the future you require a pipe or cable across the yard, you or someone then digs through it,
Seen it happen,

Even then it's not exactly more hazardous in the ground than on a shed wall is it? ( I know you don't make the rules)

 

[grainboy]

Of course it is,
Will become damaged, broken, so therefore potential to release fibres,
It’s all okay, until you start breaking. Cutting etc,

 

[quattro]

Even then it's not exactly more hazardous in the ground than on a shed wall is it? ( I know you don't make the rules)

I think they only wrap it up in something and put it the bottom of landfill site up here

 

[steveR]

Of course it is,
Will become damaged, broken, so therefore potential to release fibres,
It’s all okay, until you start breaking. Cutting etc,

I was surprised at seeing an old Atcost building being taken down locally last year, 2 guys in a cherrypicker, smashing pieces of sheeting off, and throwing into a skip on the ground. 10m from a footpath and 20m from houses. They were in hazmat suits, but very so-so about masks