Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005.

The hazardous waste regulations were put in place in June 2005 to replace the previous Special waste controls.

The new regulations required all producers of hazardous waste to register their premises by July 16th 2005 and on an annual basis thereafter with the Environment Agency.

Under the new regulations the producer must separate all hazardous waste from the general waste streams.

All hazardous waste carriers and treatment facilities are required to keep appropriate records to create cradle to grave monitoring of all hazardous waste movements.

A quarterly return is required to be submitted to the Environment Agency to include all such movements.

More information on the Hazardous waste regulations can be found on the DEFRA web site.

List of Waste Regulations 2005.

These regulations have been based around the European Waste Catalogue (EWC) to identify individual waste streams.

The EWC code is designed to identify the process from which the waste has been generated. The codes are identified using a six digit code selected from a comprehensive 20 chapter headings.

Should a code be marked with an asterisk it is deemed to be a Hazardous waste stream.

Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000 (IPPC).

The IPPC system has been put in place to regulate recycling plant operating conditions. These regulations have been designed to supersede the current Waste Management Licensing regulations to improve site efficiency using Best Available Techniques (BAT)

The regulations have been designed to prevent, reduce and eliminate pollution and will ensure progressively higher standards of performance.

More information on the IPPC directive can be found on the Environment Agency web site.

Waste Incineration Directive. (WID).

The waste incineration directive applies to most activities that involve burning waste, to include burning waste as a fuel.

The aim of this directive is to prevent or limit any negative effects on the environment to include emissions to air, land or ground water.

The changes in legislation from January 2006 have had a direct impact on the producers of waste oil as the majority is currently collected and burned as a fuel.

More information on waste incineration directive is available on the Environment Agency web site.

Landfill Regulations 2002.

This legislation has been implemented to reduce the pollution potential from landfilled waste that can impact on the environment and also impact on climate change.

Recent changes in legislation mean that it is now illegal to landfill untreated or liquid waste. Hazardous waste with a total organic carbon (TOC) content of more than 6% is also now unacceptable to landfill.

More information on the landfill directive is available on the Environment Agency web site.

End of Life Vehicle (ELV) Regulations 2003.

Current legislation requires all ELV treatment sites to meet strict Environmental standards.

These regulations have been implemented to encourage higher reuse, recycling and recovery targets.

Legislation now requires removal and segregation of all fluids to include oil, brake fluid etc before it can be sent for metal recovery.

More information on ELV regulations is available on the Environment Agency web site.