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A tank of old fuel or kerosene is hazardous waste. You cannot legally tip it, bin it or drain it.
One call and it stops being your problem. We take it off your hands under licence, and the legal liability leaves with it.
Call nowRegistered carrier. Consignment note in your hand. Liability transferred.
Whatever the volume, it leaves under licence
Bulk collection is what our tankers and licensed transfer equipment are built for, but the obligations are identical whatever the volume. One drum or a full tanker load, it leaves your site under licence and you get the consignment note that proves it.
Storage tanks, IBCs, bowsers, bunded stores, multi-tank sites, whole-site clearances and scheduled repeat collections. One mobilisation clears the lot, and every litre of it is consigned, coded and documented before the tanker leaves your gate.
Book a bulk collectionA drum in a workshop, a part-filled bowser, the last of a domestic heating oil tank, a handful of contaminated containers. Small does not mean unregulated. It is still hazardous waste, your duty of care still applies, and it still needs a registered carrier and a consignment note. We collect it exactly as we would a tanker load.
Book a small collectionWhat it costs to leave it where it is
This is the part worth doing the arithmetic on before you decide the collection is expensive. Waste fuel and kerosene do not become someone else’s problem by sitting in a tank, and the liability does not expire.
- One call. Collected by a registered carrier, on a date that suits your site.
- A consignment note in your hand, correctly EWC coded, evidencing that your duty of care has been discharged.
- The material is held securely and re-refined back into the supply chain wherever it can be.
- It is off your site, off your books and out of your name. The liability transfers with the load.
- Unlawful deposit of hazardous waste carries an unlimited fine and, on indictment, up to five years imprisonment.
- Breaching your duty of care is a separate offence, whether or not the waste was ever tipped. Handing it to an unregistered carrier is enough.
- Polluting controlled waters is a further offence again, and the clean-up costs are recoverable from whoever caused it.
- Contaminated land liability attaches to the person who caused or knowingly permitted it, runs with the site, and surfaces at exactly the wrong moment: sale, refinance or lease renewal.
- Pollution incidents are commonly excluded or tightly limited on standard commercial policies, so the remediation bill tends to land on the operator.
Waste fuel and kerosene do not become somebody else’s problem by being ignored, and the duty of care has no expiry date. The expensive version of this is a prosecution, a remediation order, or a buyer’s solicitor finding a drum of degraded kerosene during a survey. The cheap version is a phone call. Ring us, we collect it under licence, and the paperwork that closes it out comes back with the driver.
A single drum and a full tanker carry precisely the same obligations: stored securely, moved only by a registered carrier, consigned under the correct code, and evidenced on paper you can produce at inspection. The quantity decides what we send. It has no bearing on whether your duty of care applies, and none at all on who is liable while it is still sitting on your site.
- Petrol, diesel, red diesel and gas oil, kerosene, domestic and commercial heating oil, aviation and marine fuels, and mixed or unidentified tank contents that need sampling first.
- Degraded, stale and contaminated stock, tank bottoms, sludge, water ingress and microbial growth. Condition is not a problem, and we would rather know about it before we arrive than after.
- Farms and estates, marinas and boatyards, plant and fleet yards, garages and dealerships, generator and standby installations, managing agents, developers clearing a site, and homeowners decommissioning a heating oil tank.
What the law actually requires of you
Waste petrol, diesel, kerosene, gas oil and heating oil are all hazardous waste. The obligations below sit with whoever is holding the fuel or kerosene, which on a bulk storage site means the operator, until it is handed to an authorised person.
Anyone who produces, keeps or disposes of controlled waste must store it securely, satisfy themselves that whoever takes it away is authorised to do so, and keep the transfer documentation. The duty does not end when the fuel leaves your gate, it ends when it passes to an authorised person.
Environmental Protection Act 1990, section 34Transporting controlled waste requires registration with the Environment Agency in England and Wales, SEPA in Scotland or the NIEA in Northern Ireland. Handing waste fuel or kerosene to an unregistered party does not transfer your liability. It adds to it.
Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011Hazardous waste must move under a consignment note carrying the correct European Waste Catalogue code, and the record must be kept for three years. For fuel and kerosene that is typically 13 07 01 for fuel oil, gas oil and diesel, 13 07 02 for petrol, and 13 07 03 for other fuels including kerosene.
Hazardous Waste Regulations · EWC chapter 13 07Depositing waste fuel or kerosene on ground, into a drain, a soakaway or a watercourse, or placing it in a household or commercial bin, is unlawful disposal. It carries an unlimited fine and, on indictment, up to five years imprisonment. Allowing fuel to enter controlled waters is a separate offence in its own right.
Environmental Protection Act 1990, section 33 · Water Resources Act 1991, section 85Who you are handing it to
Checking your carrier is part of your duty of care, so here is what we are. Ask for the paperwork on the call and we will send it before the tanker is booked.
- Nothing is dumped. Recovered fuel and kerosene is held securely and re-refined back into the supply chain wherever the material allows it.
- IBCs to tanker loads. A contaminated storage tank, a farmyard bowser, a marina store, a decommissioned heating oil tank or a full site clearance.
- Environment Agency accredited, operating across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since 2009.
The questions everyone asks
Can I just pour old fuel or kerosene away?
Who is allowed to take waste fuel or kerosene away?
What is my duty of care as the person holding the waste?
What paperwork should I receive?
What do you collect, and is there a minimum?
I have only a drum or two. Will you still take it?
Why does old fuel or kerosene need removing at all?
Do you cover the whole UK?
Tell us what is in the tank. We will take it from there.
Volume, material and postcode is all we need. One drum or a tanker load, it leaves under licence, and the documentation that discharges your duty of care comes back with the driver.
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