Message Board - Health & Safety: Disposal of dead rats
13 Jul 2009 by jamescowie
Good afternoon,
Does anyone know about a safe way to dispose of dead rats?
13 Jul 2009 by Poa7
Send them to me ..... slurp!
13 Jul 2009 by fidget
Hope this helps.
Waste Management (England and Wales) Regulations 2006 which applied the normal controls on waste to agricultural waste. Such waste may include any vermin killed as part of normal farming operations and discarded. I note and share your concern that the legislation may work in such a way as to increase the exposure of wildlife to accidental poisoning by rodenticides. This is certainly not the objective of the change and at my request my officials have asked the Environment Agency to review their policy on the disposal of rodent bodies following treatment with rodenticides as waste.
The Agency, having undertaken the review, have now advised that their preferred hierarchy for disposal of individual or small numbers of poisoned vermin from routine baiting as waste so as to protect health and environment is as follows:
~ disposal via on farm small carcass incinerators (regulated under the Animal By-product Regulation);
~ removal along with other waste as part of the domestic waste collection round (subject to local authority agreement);
~ disposal off site at a suitably authorised incinerator or landfill; or where this is not possible,
~ the burial on site provided this is done away from sensitive areas and in line with the Code of Practice for the Protection of Water.
Disposal should take place without delay to prevent contact with other wildlife, a concern I am sure you will share.
The above applies to an individual farmer or gamekeeper disposing of carcasses from routine vermin control. Where a commercial rodent control firm is employed for vermin control or larger scale extermination the Agency would expect the firm to gather and remove carcasses for disposal off site at a suitably authorised incineration or landfill.
BEN BRADSHAW MP
Office of the Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare
13 Jul 2009 by jamescowie
Thank you for the sound advice.
13 Jul 2009 by jlawrence
sling 'em over' wall.
Seriously without fidget's posting above I wouldn't have any idea how to dispose of them - I think any dead one's found at our place just go in the skip.
Of course there's no bounce, bend your back and put some bloody effort in.
13 Jul 2009 by fidget
Incinerate or bury is easiest. When I worked in Pest control they just went in the back of a dustcart.
13 Jul 2009 by Rizla
if our cat get`s one , it goes in the septic tank (solids ) 
Fat old Sun
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