David Cragg wrote: > Be careful about taking stuff from skips. > > In a case last week the police and CPS in Oswestry successfully > prosecuted a man for taking by finding. The loony cops saw him remove > three glass jars from a rubbish skip and carry them away in a plastic > bag so they arrested him. In court the mans brief said the case was > ridiculous and that when the jars (thrown out as rubbish by the shop) > were returned they dumped them back in the skip. Never the less the > majestic Bs of the law found the man guilty and fined him plus giving > a suspended sentence lest he do it again.
Waste is a minefield. Once something has been declared "waste", then there's a whole raft of legistation kicks in. To move any such waste one then has to have some sort of authorization (council, gov - not the original owner) or be a licensed waste collector. At work we are allowed to move our waste to a central waste bund (on the same site), and from there it goes off in a lorry. When we had two sites (within walking/viewing distance), the lorry had to stop at both sites, we could not move the waste from one to the other (we could move thousands of different chemicals between the sites - and did so - but *not* waste). Ron Jones Process Safety & Development Specialist Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near misses at http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert Einstein
