D J RECYCLING LTDCollection of non-hazardous waste · Worthing · West Sussex

Field A · completed by the producer and the carrier together

Description of the waste

A note opens with what the waste is, in words the receiving site can act on. Each line below is a non-hazardous stream, the container that load leaves in, and the List of Wastes code that usually fits it.

The codes above are the entries a load of that description usually falls to, and they are printed here so that a producer can read the note before signing it. A code is not chosen first. The description is written first, so that the six digits follow the material rather than the material being bent to fit the digits.

A stream is booked by name, so that the right body leaves the yard on the day. Where a site makes two of these at once, two containers are placed and the paperwork follows each separately. Once a container is described as a single stream, anything else put into it changes the description, and the description on the note is what the receiving site works to.

Descriptions of mixed loads carry the words the tipping floor needs: what the bulk of the load is, what else is in it, and where it came from.

Field B · entered at lifting, amended at the weighbridge

Quantity, and how it is measured

Quantity goes on the note as the container size at the moment of lifting, and is replaced by the net tonnage once the weighbridge ticket exists. Volume is therefore the first question at booking, so the ladder below turns an estimate into a body size. What comes back is a guide only: it reads the numbers typed in and nothing more.

A filled bin bag counts as 0.09 m³, which is the figure the arithmetic above uses and the figure the last column is divided by. The ladder is read upwards and never downwards, so that the sheet still goes over the rim once the last barrow is tipped in.

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.

Field C · the containment the load travels in

How the waste is contained

The note records how a load is held for the journey, so that the receiving site knows what arrives on the vehicle. Four kinds of containment cover the work: open skip bodies under a sheet, lidded 1100 litre wheeled containers, roll-on roll-off containers for volume, and caged loads for loose scrap.

Working out what is left in a container

A container standing half filled is a booking question rather than a collection question. Give the body size and an honest eye estimate of how full it is, and the arithmetic below returns the volume already used and the volume still to go, in cubic metres and in filled bin bags.

Lids stay down on wheeled containers and sheets stay on skips, so that the load reaches the transfer station as it was described at lifting.

Field D · the destination the description commits the load to

Where a load goes once it is tipped

Everything tipped at a permitted transfer station falls into one of three streams at the floor. The diagram is drawn from a mixed container, so that each item is shown reaching the stream its description sends it to.

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 station baled, so that the fibre stays a material. 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 third stream and the slowest to handle, because everything in it is pulled apart again at the picking line. Gypsum sits outside all three: plasterboard is kept away from biodegradable waste, so that sulphate and organic material do not travel together, which is why it is booked into its own container.

A container that arrives sorted is recorded as sorted on the note. In either case the description travels with the load, and the description is what the floor works to.

Field E · the party moving the waste

The carrier, and the ground it covers

Anyone moving waste another party produced must hold a carrier registration, and the number belongs on the carrier section of every note, so that the receiving site can check it before the load is tipped.

Rounds run 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, so that most exchanges fall inside the same day.

Work beyond that band is taken on where a return leg makes sense. The answer given at booking is whether the round reaches the site this week or the next, and that answer is given before a container is promised.

The carrier registration number is quoted in full on the note itself rather than on this page, so that the copy held by the producer carries the version that was current at the transfer.

Field F · where and when the waste changes hands

Place and time of transfer

The place of transfer is the address the container stood at, and the time of transfer is the moment it was lifted. Both are entered at the gate and never afterwards from memory.

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.

A container on the public highway is a separate matter from a container on private ground, because the highway placing needs a permit from the county and the lights and markings that go with it. That question is settled at booking, so that a body is not delivered to a place it cannot lawfully stand.

The note is raised at the point the full container is lifted, and both parties hold a copy from that moment.

Field G · waste carried by another party, under its own permit

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. Each entry names the rule that puts it 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 in 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.

Field H · signed by both parties at the transfer

Signatures, and the copies each party keeps

A note is raised for each load moved for another party, and a copy travels back to the producer. These are the fields it carries above the signature line.

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.

Waste hierarchy declaration

A statement that the steps in the hierarchy were applied to the waste before it was transferred.

Both parties hold their copy for two years from the transfer, and the file is produced on request to a regulator. Loads weighed at the station carry the weighbridge ticket alongside the note, so that the tonnage on the paper and the tonnage on the bridge agree.

The duty of care paperwork sheet sets out the register, the season ticket that covers repeat collections, and how long each record is kept.