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Waterman Environmental
Anna Latham, Senior Consultant
Waste Legislation Update
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Waterman Environmental
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Objectives
• Waste legislation update / general discussion
• Introduction to www.legalregister.co.uk
www.legalregister.co.uk
…taking the hard work
out of environmental
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Brainstorm
• What are the main issues relating to waste legislation affecting your institution?
• How do you ensure that you keep up to date with changes in legislation?
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Waste Legislation Update
• Pre-treatment of non-hazardous waste
• WEEE – issues for Universities
• Battery recycling
• Review of Inert Waste Legislation
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Pre-treatment of Non-Hazardous Waste
• Requirement of the Landfill Directive from October 2007• Treatment must:
1. Be a physical, thermal, chemical or biological process including sorting;
2. Change the characteristics of the waste; and
3. it must do so in order to:– (a) reduce its volume; or
– (b) reduce its hazardous nature; or
– (c) facilitate its handling; or
– (d) enhance recovery.
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Exceptions
• It is an inert waste for which treatment is not technically feasible
• It is a waste other than an inert waste and treatment would not reduce its quantity or the hazards that it poses to human health or the environment
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• http://publications.environment-agency.gov.uk/pdf/GEHO0207BLWJ-e-e.pdf
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• EA and NI – producers of waste must check with waste contractors if they are pre-treating before landfill
• Scotland – more emphasis on regulation via WML for waste contractors
Pre-treatment of Non-Hazardous Waste
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WEEE
• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2000
• Main issues for Universities:
– Compliance with DoC
– Requirements to register as an exemption under WML?
– Are you a producer?
– Negotiating Supply contracts for new equipment
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Duty of Care
• WEEE purchased before 13 Aug 2005– If no like for like replacement the end business user is responsible for
disposal costs– If like for like replacement of equipment – supplier (producer) responsible
• WEEE purchased after 13 Aug 2005– Producer responsible, unless otherwise agreed with business user
• Transfer to Accredited Exporter or Authorised Accredited Treatment Facility
• Retain transfer notes / licenses etc.
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WML exemptions
• Para 49 exemption - Repair and/or refurbishment of WEEE– http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/waste/
1416460/1334460/1416503/1097663/?lang=_e
• Para 50 exemption - The storage of WEEE pending recovery elsewhere– http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/waste/
1416460/1334460/1329426/1737529/1737616/?version=1&lang=_e
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Producer?
• Producer - any person who, irrespective of selling technique used (including internet), including by means of distance:
– Manufactures and sells his own brand
– Re-sells under his own brand
– Imports EEE into the UK
• Producers must register with a compliance scheme
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End Users Beware!
• The Regulations allow suppliers (producers) to negotiate alternative financing arrangements – This will be a commercial decision and should form part of the
supply contract negotiating process
• Some (unscrupulous!) producers may try and discharge their recycling obligation by writing into supply contracts that their customer is responsible for re-cycling WEEE at the end of its life– Contracts must be negotiated carefully
– Purchasing Staff need to be made aware
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Battery Recycling
• Directive agreed May 2006, transposition within 24 months
• Main requirements of Directive:– Collection targets (2012 – 25%; 2016 – 45%)
– Recycling targets
– Restrictions on use of cadmium
– Producer responsibility
• BREW / WRAP looking at collection infrastructure
• Implications for end users e.g. segregation / disposal routes / DoC
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Review of Inert Waste Legislation
• Need to ensure that inert waste remains available to restore exhausted mineral extraction sites
• Aim is to regulate in a way that minimises burdens on business and maximise resource efficiency
• Result of Davidson Review / Aggregates Protocol
• Focus on CD&E waste – 90 million tonnes in 2005
• Waste Strategy 2007 target – halve CD&E waste going to landfill by 2012
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Review of Inert Waste Legislation
• EA construction sector partnership plan;• greater use of derogations from some of the Landfill Directive
controls that are provided for inert waste; • revised guidance on the testing of inert wastes that are landfilled; • the quality of guidance, including classifying an activity as
recovery or disposal.
• Implication for rules surrounding management of inert waste• New buildings and Estates Management – checks made on
contractors / re-use of waste
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Structure of Legal Register
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