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Offers and wants: Large quantity of soil available

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    • CommentAuthorPurpleman
    • CommentTimeJan 19th 2010
     
    Hi
    One of our sites is in the process of excavating a considerable amount of soil - we estimate 500 truckloads.
    Other than the obvious landfill option, does anyone have suggestions as to where it might be of use?
    It's in East Sussex. The site is former allotments. The soil has been through rigourous eco testing and certified safe.
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    Contact local aggregates companies, large garden centres..... just need to be careful on all the taxes that need paying on it :)
    • CommentAuthorCWatters
    • CommentTimeJan 19th 2010
     
    You can sell practically anything on ebay. I recall a journalist selling "old rope" and then going to visit the person who bought it. Mind you 500 truckloads is a lot.

    Try local highway agencies to see if they are building any roads that need landscaping materials for embankments.

    How about turf farmers? They must loose a lot of topsoil every time they scalp off the turf.
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    You will need all the appropriate waste transfer licences, as the producer of the waste you incur a responsibility to ensure this is taken care, you cannot assume the haulier who transports it has.

    Equally , speaking from experience, unless you can also ensure the the necessary EA exemptions are in place for where its going its unlikely you will get a haulier / excavation company to put it anywhere that doesn't have such exemptions.

    To classify the subsoil as waste sounds daft, but no matter what testing it has undergone, that's still what it is.

    J
    • CommentAuthorJulian
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2010
     
    You could talk to NISP:
    http://www.nisp.org.uk/
    They might have some ideas.

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