This old armchair and a cup of tea got Alan Heywood into trouble with the States.

THE States’ Fontaine Vinery waste sorting site is badly run and organised and in the wrong place, according to Direct Skips owner Alan Heywood.

After being threatened with expulsion from the site for drinking a take-away cup of tea in his store while sheltering from the rain, Mr Heywood, 43, said he had had enough.

‘We aren’t allowed to do anything here. It’s pathetic.’

He has been told he is not even allowed to wash his lorries on site or enter his storeroom unless he is getting something from it, he said.

He has also been warned that a chair that he had in his storeroom would be removed because it was against policy, he said. ‘The people who run this place told me I can’t have a chair in here. They say it is called a canteen office if you put a chair in it.’

A Treasury and Resources spokesman said it was providing storage compounds only at Fontaine Vinery with temporary permission from the Environment Department and that there was a waiting list for larger compounds on the site.

‘Tenants will be written to next week reminding them of the terms of the lease, which include not being allowed to bring containers on site without permission and not to use them for any purpose apart from storage,’ he said.