Waste Exemptions changing

[Kryten]

Has anyone else received an email from the EA regarding changes to the Waste Exemption Regs starting next year?

• U1 – Use of waste in construction (changing conditions)
• U16 – Use of depolluted end-of-life vehicles for parts (removed)
• T4 – Preparatory treatments (baling, sorting, shredding etc.) (changing conditions)
• T6 – Treatment of waste wood (changing conditions)
• T8 – Mechanically treating end-of-life tyres (removed)
• T9 – Recovery of scrap metal (removed)
• T12 – Manual treatment of waste (changing conditions)
• D7 – Burning of vegetation at the place of production only (changing conditions)
• S1 – Storage of waste in secure containers (changing conditions)
• S2 – Storage of waste in a secure place (changing conditions)

 

[Raggy]

Got that email last week. Looks like they are now going to implement charges for storing some (or all) types of waste on farm before it's disposal.

 

[Steevo]

Changes to Waste exemptions

Anyone else had an email from the EA regarding the above? It seems they are changing some of the exemptions, abolishing some categories entirely and altering the conditions of others, including ones used by farms such as U1 and D7. What seems to be the most problematic change to U1 is that...

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Waste exemptions

I expect plenty of us have received a nice email from the government about waste exemptions and how’s things are gonna change and we are going to have to pay for it all.another lot of regulations adding more costs and another nail in the coffin for small farmers I beleive nick…

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[GMaull]

I'm sure they've also changed the wording around your selection of categories.

They worded it to say if you don't need it don't select it, then threatening we may start charging for certain categories.

Whilst I might not use all the selected exemptions, better to have an not need in my mind than get done for something in error.

Until I'm told of that one costs or that's illegal, then I'll delete and act accordingly.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

In farmer speak, what does that mean?

 

[GMaull]

I'll keep the same selections, minus any they've removed until they try charging.

 

[uztrac]

What saddens me is that we vote for our elected representatives and then they set about damaging the very ones who put them in .The same a local,regional & national level.It makes one wonder if "democracy" works ?

 

[GMaull]

It's more Whitehall than those elected people, the elected people aren't invested in a particular scheme.

They just sign stuff off that gets put under their noses, the real question is where is Whitehall getting the ideas and why doesn't the NFU know where it's starting?.

 

[Courier]

What saddens me is that we vote for our elected representatives and then they set about damaging the very ones who put them in .The same a local,regional & national level.It makes one wonder if "democracy" works ?

“Democracy” would be proportional to the number voting for whatever - it isn’t

 

[GMaull]

And to a degree they're all the same colour of beige under the red or blue veneer

 

[Steevo]

I'm sure they've also changed the wording around your selection of categories.

They worded it to say if you don't need it don't select it, then threatening we may start charging for certain categories.

Whilst I might not use all the selected exemptions, better to have an not need in my mind than get done for something in error.

Until I'm told of that one costs or that's illegal, then I'll delete and act accordingly.

That's exactly what I do.

Tick every box and then I'm covered for everything possible just in case. Last thing you want is to find you're in breach of something that just ticking a box would have sorted.

It's a crazy old world....

 

[Steevo]

It's more Whitehall than those elected people, the elected people aren't invested in a particular scheme.

They just sign stuff off that gets put under their noses, the real question is where is Whitehall getting the ideas and why doesn't the NFU know where it's starting?.

I'm 99% sure it's all coming down from above - these international agreements we keep signing from all of the different global summits.

Hence why as you say - it rarely matters what colour flag they are flying - it all comes down to the same thing.