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Materials taken on a booked collection

Each line is a non-hazardous stream and the container that load leaves in.

A stream is booked by name so that the right body arrives on the day. Where a site makes two of these at once, two containers are placed and the paperwork follows each separately.

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Loads that travel under a consignment note

The registration held here covers waste classified as non-hazardous, so a licensed hazardous contractor collects the materials below under its own permit, and each entry names the rule that puts them there.

Asbestos cement sheet and insulating board

An absolute entry in the List of Wastes, so it moves on a consignment note to a site permitted for it.

Waste oils, fuels and oil filters

Mirror entries that classify as hazardous once contaminated, so the contractor consigns them apart from any load leaving here.

Liquid paint, solvent and adhesive

Hazardous by flashpoint and by content, so the drums travel under the contractor permit and by consignment code.

Fluorescent tubes and gas discharge lamps

Mercury bearing, so they leave whole in a tube case for a site licensed to treat lamps.

Fridges, freezers and sealed cooling units

Regulated for the gases in the circuit and the foam, so degassing happens before anything is stripped.

Lead acid and lithium cells

Battery waste has its own stream, so the contractor supplies a container and exchanges it on its own visit.

Where one of these turns up in a container placed by this company, it is set aside at the gate and the consignment route is arranged first.

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How a container exchange is booked

1. The booking is taken by name of site The address, the material and the container standing there are recorded, so that the right body leaves the yard.
2. A window is agreed, not a clock time Coastal traffic and gate access move the order of a round, so exchanges book to a morning or an afternoon.
3. The gate needs a level approach and clear headroom A skip lorry needs firm ground, room to swing the arms and no cable across the drop.
4. The container is loaded to the fill line Nothing may sit proud of the rim once the sheet goes over, so an overloaded body is levelled before lifting.
5. A container that cannot be reached is written up A blocked gate or a parked vehicle goes on the run sheet, and the exchange returns on the next round in that district.

The transfer note is raised at the point the full container is lifted, and never afterwards from memory.

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Reading the container ladder

Volume is the first question at booking. Give the load in bags or cubic metres and the ladder returns the nearest size up, so that the sheet still goes over the rim.

A filled bin bag counts as 0.09 m³, the figure the arithmetic above uses. What comes back reads the numbers typed in and nothing more: it settles the body size to send, and it settles nothing about what the load weighs. On rubble it is weight and not volume that stops a load, which is why the ladder above is arithmetic and the weighbridge is the answer.

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The stream sorter

The tray holds items that turn up in a mixed container. Press the button and each travels to its stream.

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Segregation at source

Separating a load on site changes where it can go once it is tipped. Card and paper kept dry and flat leave the transfer station baled, so that the fibre stays a material and does not become a residue. Wood held on its own is graded, so that clean pallet timber is chipped and treated board stays out of that grade. Green waste free of soil and plastic goes to composting, once the check at the tipping floor passes.

Mixed general is the fourth stream, and the costliest to handle, because everything in it is pulled apart again at the picking line. Plasterboard sits outside all four: gypsum is kept away from biodegradable waste so that sulphate and organic material are not landfilled together, which is why it is booked into its own container. A container that arrives sorted is recorded as sorted on the transfer note, and the description written there is what the receiving site works to.

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The transfer note issued with every load

A transfer note is raised for each load moved for another party, and a copy travels back to the producer. These are its fields.

Description of the waste

Plain words, specific enough that the receiving site knows what it takes.

List of Wastes code

The six digit code that fixes how the load is classified at the transfer station.

Quantity

Container size at lifting, replaced by the net tonnage once the weighbridge ticket exists.

Producer and carrier details

Name and address of the producer, and of this company as the carrier moving the load.

Carrier registration number

Quoted in full so that the receiving site can check it before the load is tipped.

Place and time of transfer

The address the container stood at and the moment it changed hands, signed by both.

Both parties hold their copy for two years from the transfer, and the file is produced on request to a regulator.

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Weighbridge tickets and tonnages

Loads are weighed at the permitted transfer station, not on the road and not by eye. The vehicle crosses the bridge loaded and again empty, and the difference is the net tonnage. The ticket prints gross, tare, net, vehicle registration and the time of weighing.

That net figure is copied onto the transfer note so that the paperwork and the weighing agree. Tonnages are totalled by stream for the returns the transfer station makes, and a container exchange is charged against that figure. Where a load of rubble reaches its weight limit before the body is full, the ticket is the record that explains it.

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Carrier registration and the districts worked

Anyone moving waste another party produced must be a registered carrier, and the number belongs on the carrier section of every transfer note, so that the receiving site can verify it before tipping. Rounds are worked along the West Sussex coast and the near inland: Worthing and Broadwater, Goring and Ferring, Sompting and Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea and Southwick, and the Findon and Storrington side of the downs. The yard sits on Wiston Avenue in Worthing, which keeps a round tight and puts most exchanges inside the same day. Work beyond that band is taken on where a return leg makes sense, and the booking answer is whether the round reaches you this week or the next.

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Booking a collection

The details from the head of this page are repeated here, because this is where a reader working down the document arrives.

Have three things ready when you write: the site the container goes to, the material going into it, and the container standing there now. With those three an exchange goes on a round, once a window is agreed, without a second exchange of messages.