Stinky Farm Van

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Has anyone else experienced the rather foul stench coming from a van marked Oaks Farm, Halstead Kent?

I tried to google the farm online but it doesn't seems to be active .

The van is often parked locally and the smell is so stomach churning that I cannot open my windows .

Today the crates seems to be full up with food waste . I'm just struggling to understand why a farm van is transporting waste locally ?

[robbin]

Looks well dodgy. Sorry to hear that. I suggest calling the environmental health dept. and asking them.

[robbin]

For starters they would need a license to carry the waste.

https://www.gov.uk/waste-carrier-or-broker-registration

[bobbsy]

Could be collecting food for pigs?

[Penguin68]

After foot and mouth it is no longer permissible, I believe, to feed pigs swill. This is how the last outbreak was believed to have started (with contaminated meat in the swill).

[Jacbuc]

in yell they list a JB trading based at oaktree farm, Halstead - its some kind of recyling place - their phone no is there it might be worth giving them a ring.

[Ant]

Am I imagining it or is this van something to do with the butcher's up by the library?

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Edited .

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Edited.

[robbin]

It could be seriously dangerous if it is butchers rotting waste. If you seriously think it is, I suggest a call double quick to environmental health dept. or to the police and get him nicked and cleaned up (if it is as you appear to suspect). Just the side of the truck looks pretty filthy to me! Fine if it's mud, but if it stinks like you say, it could well be crawling with serious nastiness.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

I don't know what waste it is but it stinks every time it's parked locally and the crates today were filled with vegetables I think .

The van is always filthy hence the stench .

[James Barber]

If it s stinks that badly then it would be a public nuisance and Southwark Council I would expect ot take enforcement action.

Email the details to [email protected] and cc me so I can chase it up for you.

[Penguin68]

Removal of butcher's waste is now a licensed activity - and should be (as in, is expected to be,) heavily regulated. And,for butchers, it's not cheap. This waste can no longer be recycled into any food chain (animal or people), although I think it can be processed for other industrial or agricultural uses (i.e. bone-meal).

[robbin]

Removal of any waste as a business requires a license. Parking something that stinky is clearly a public nuisance. Might well also be a criminal offence - depends of course on whether there is a licence and on all the other facts, but it is clearly wrong as well as anti-social. If it's a local business that's doing it, I for one would like to know so I can avoid it or even drop in to complain.

The farm mentioned on the truck (Oak Tree Farm, Halstead, Kent) is listed on t'internet as an address for a waste company:

J B Waste Management & B K Skip J B Trading (UK) ltd Oak Tree Farm Yard, London Road, Polhill, Halstead TN14 7AB 01959 534027 Household, Commercial and Industrial Waste T Stn, director of JB Trading is Mr John Buswell (I guess that's where the JB comes from?).

No idea if that is who the truck belongs to though. Might be worth contacting them - it might just be an unhappy coincidence that the truck is full of waste and they are a waste company registered at the address on the truck - I suppose they might have sold the truck to someone else who hasn't painted out their details yet.

[robbin]

Definite thumbs up to James Barber for posting so quickly and offering to chase up.

[rabbitears]

I walk past that truck frequently and never noticed the smell. Always wondered what it was doing in this neck of the woods. I just assumed it was a labourer who was driving it home at the end of shifts

[alice]

why would a butcher have a truck full of vegetables?

[rabbitears]

Wait a minute...James Barber...JB Waste Management...

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

It does stink of a farm usually but today it was that mixed with the smell of the rotten vegetables unless those of us complaining of the smell have the nose of a bloodhound .

It's been reported .

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Edited .

[uncleglen]

Just because a licence is needed for this, and this or that is or is not permitted, does NOT mean people will not do stuff if they can save money.....

[Blah Blah]

The simple solution would be for him to put lids on the crates (and clean his truck). Rotting vegetable waste isn't a health hazard. Compost is made from it.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Blah Blah, that would be great, especially the cleaning of his van .

[intexasatthe moment]

I expect I'm missing something ,but how do we know that this vehicle belongs to the butcher up at the Plough ?

[ianr]

robbin Wrote:

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> J B Waste Management & B K Skip J B Trading (UK)

> ltd Oak Tree Farm Yard, London Road, Polhill,

> Halstead TN14 7AB 01959 534027 Household,

> Commercial and Industrial Waste T Stn, director of

> JB Trading is Mr John Buswell (I guess that's

> where the JB comes from?).

He has four active companies at Oak Tree Farm licensed for waste operations. I've removed the link to my search result as it was session-limited. Apologies. But if you want to search yourself, enter the Waste Operations category and postcode TN14 7AB in http://epr.environment-agency.gov.uk/ePRInternet/SearchRegisters.aspx.