Registering with LA for Waste Management!!!

[elly1958]

Hi all

I just had my visit following a phone call from the Waste Management officer. Nice chap and just trying to do his job but my oh my did he get a rough ride.

It seems its being looked at as they not sure what to do but as we are a 'business' and have waste we need to register. This basically means that we will have to pay £3.95 to have a bin .....yet another wheelie bin which will be collected weekly. I have a job to fill my wheelie bin as it is and i just not got the room for another without it encroaching upon the play area i provide for the kids. I also said how do we define commercial and domestic waste as we often share the same food, milk, cheese, eggs and bread......od will they suggest we start with a them and us food policy.

Its utter red tape again but it has to be said this was all started by a Registered Childminder in Nottingham calling the bin people asking for another bin as hers was over flowing. This chap said that she had a severe problem with waste on her setting and told her of what it would cost to arrange this business waste removal. She in turn called Ofsted and the Sandfield Centre who have reacted by sending us childminders copies of the paperwork. More paperwork oh joy.

I already have a bag here for clinical waste for my son who has to dispose of cathetars but if i have babies to care for i wouldnt be allowed to use this bag for putting their used nappies in. So 2 half filled bags will be picked up weekly and by the same lorry and same chap. Charged seperately. But the guy is already visitng me so he is getting twice the fees for the same journey.

I am so angry as us childminders are only recognised when its to do with money and bad childcare. How come.

He claims some childminders already register and pay for the commercial waste service.

We need to revolt over this issue.....lol I feel a demo coming on and a poster in my window. ha ha

[elly1958]

I had a visit from the chap looking into this. £3.95 per week for the service. He is trying to get this reduced to £3.10 and two weekly. That fee is for one bin. If you want anrecycle bin for business its another £3.95. This is another excuse to print money and fill the council coffers. In my opinion 1p is too much.

[TheBTeam]

Ours is the same, luckily I have an agile 18 year old son who jumps in my recycling to squash it down a bit or it would be overflowing.

All our food waste either gets recycled in the dog or the composter

Sorry i chuckled when i read this and had to re-read it, i read it as 'computer'

[auntym]

They can stick it. Il take my own waste to the tip on a wk end. Cheeky pigs x

[clorogue]

This was all mentioned on my first aid course a couple of years ago that it would be coming in and then we could think whether we give it back to the parents or pay. Guess which way the nappies here changed will be going!!!

[PixiePetal]

I thought there was a difference between running a business and working from home?

If you are at the stage of needing planning permission with the numbers of children you care for then I guess you are in the 'running a business'

sorry if I am wrong and talking twaddle, it is late (or is it early!)

[maisiemog]

I actually think I would pay for this and am considering registering because the rubbish collection system here sucks!!!

Its fortnightly collection, we have to put ALL food waste into seperate bins, and recycle but for the last 2 weeks they've not collected our recycling so its now overflowing!!! And the whole street reeks of rotting food, plus there are flies and maggots! For £4 a week it'd be worth it not to have to go through the faff of it all!!

[donnagwynne]

Thank you Ellie1958 I really did wonder why Nottingham childminders were the first in the line of fire for this, now I know!!!

My bins are not too bad, but because of the recycling system in place here my non-recycling bin (the smelly one) is only collected every other week. I would be happy to pay £3.95 for this to be emptied every week, but I really do not have the room for an additional bin.

I am glad that you have spoken to the waste management officer, I was worried about doing this and 'giving myself away' in case I could not afford to pay for the additional collections.

If you feel like revolting Ellie 1958 please send me a poster!!

Donna

[rickysmiths]

I know I said it was silly, but then he pointed out that they are encouraging parents to use real nappies, by supplying them.

Yes and in our area they won't give them to Childminders to use.

[caz3007]

I can fully understand the charge if you regularly need another bin, but if you keep within the allowed household rubbish, then there shouldnt be an extra charge. After all apart from a few nappies a week, I couldnt distinguish minding rubbish from our normal household

[grindal]

When I was inspected by Environmental Health last year my inspector said that I should really be registed with waste disposal as a business user - as weekly refuse collections are only supposed to collect domestic waste and not business waste. But then he added that it would be ridiculous for childminders to have to do this! I am sure there are plently of people who run small businesses from home and do not have a seperate waste disposal arrangement

[Trouble]

i was quoted 28.00 for a business bin when she asked me my name is said dont bother ill cram it in mine or take it to skip

i think our house recycles the most on our street

[Pixie dust]

I know this is an old thread but wondering if anyone has come up against this recently as a childminding friend was told she had to get a separate waste contract or a waste carriers licence as waste from her business shouldn't be put in her domestic bins when she had a Food safety inspection from her local environmental health officer beginning of last week. This is an added expense which she can not afford. I am trying to find out if anyone else has come across this as other local childminders haven't.

[bunyip]

We had a routine EHO inspection last month, and they were fine with us using the domestic bin. Nurseries and preschools here have to use commercial waste bin procedures. I suspect it may come down to different LAs doing different things.

[FussyElmo]

We have to pay for a separate bin it costs £50 a year