What Makes a Legitimate Skip Hire Company?

What Makes a Legitimate Skip Hire Company?

Skip hire companies typically hire out skips for waste disposal to various individuals and companies. Uses range from residential waste clear outs to construction site waste. Skips provide a convenient way of collecting large amounts of waste and hopefully, assuming the skip hire company you use is operating as it should, dispose of the waste in a responsible and legal manner.

As with many businesses, there are still some rogue traders in the skip hire industry. In the UK, you can be fined thousands of pounds if waste from a skip you hired is disposed of in an illegal way by a waste carrier who is not authorised. This can be traced back to you. When you hire a skip, you are at all times responsible for the waste that you produce, even after the waste has been collected by the skip hire company and disposed of. This is because of duty of care rules set in place by councils up and down the UK. Checking that the company is legitimate is therefore very important if you are to avoid unwanted fines.

Professional skip hire companies should be registered with the Environment Agency and have a waste disposal licence number. You can ask for this and check with the Environment Agency to ensure they are legitimate. If a company is a member of an accredited organisation such as the Chartered Institute of Waste Management, they are also more likely to be legitimate such companies have to abide by strict codes of practice in order to sustain membership.

Legitimate skip hire companies demonstrate their corporate social responsibility by using waste transfer notes for every job. A waste transfer note (WTN) is a note which details the specifics of the transfer of the waste from you to them, for correct disposal. The waste carriers note should contain the following details: the waste disposal licence number of the skip hire company; details of the waste itself; how the waste is contained; where the transfer of waste took place; the time of the waste transfer; the address details of all parties involved in the transfer and a European Waste Catalogue Code (EWC) for the waste.

Legitimate skip hire companies should always have adequate public liability insurance to cover any potential damage to the property of the person hiring the skip.

Word of mouth is a factor in determining the legitimacy of a skip hire company. Other people who have experience of certain companies will be able to tell you about the service good or bad. With the rise of internet reviews, a company carrying out dodgy practices is bound to have some bad reviews written about them. The length of time that a company has been in existence may also be a factor as companies acting illegitimately are unlikely to be in existence very long under the same name. Check how long a company has been in existence for before handing over money along carrying out all of the other checks for legitimacy.

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