"Alan Gould" wrote in message
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In article , Janet Tweedy
writes
Went to a friend's garden yesterday with a group of keen gardeners and
several people were there who have regular supplies of manure delivered
(weekly by trailer!)

They were saying that after June it will be illegal to sell manure by
the load and not only that the poor riding school owners will not be
able to store it on soil, (must be on concrete) and mustn't be allowed
to drain into public water systems (though it doesn't anyway). EU
directive apparently.

There already are some fairly stringent regulations regarding silage
effluent entering streams etc, so this may be an extension of those.

Our horse manure is delivered weekly free from a private owner of two
horses. Is there any likelihood of them being stopped?
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

If this refers to the Waste Management (England and Wales) Regulations 2005,
then DEFRA's "Question and answer" document includes:

Question:- Can I give manure and slurry to a householders for use on their
gardens?



Answer:- Yes - householders would not need to register the exemption [from
control] for manure and slurry in order to benefit from it.



So from this, it seems that supplying manure to gardeners will be exempt
from the new controls. Supplying to nurseries, smallholders etc. may be
different but even so the regulations seem to say that the use of manure as
a fertiliser is not considered to be waste disposal and therefore not
controlled, provided the receiver registers with the Environment Agency and
a few other conditions are met (such as not storing more than 1,250 tons of
it any time!)



Neil.