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Quarterly MeetingMarch 2019
Welcome
Andy Hill - Chair
Agenda10.00 am – 10.05 am Welcome and Introduction – Andy Hill
10.05 am – 10.25 am AGM and Board Update - Andy Hill
10.25 am – 10.45 am Business Plan Review and WRA Activity Updates - Julia Turner, Gayle Whittaker, Richard Coulson, RWE and VickiHughes, Hadfield Wood Recyclers, including:
• EPR Consultation• MP Engagement• FPP• Waste Wood Classification• BSL/RHI Guidance/Air Quality Strategy
10.45 am - 11.15 am Update from the Environment Agency – Howard Leberman
11.15 am – 11.35 am Coffee Break/Networking in Exhibition Area
11.35 am - 11.45 am Results of 2019 Elections – Andy Hill
11.45 am – 12.15 pm Health and Safety Update – Tim Johnson, HSE
12.15 pm – 12.25 pm Dates and Locations of Future Meetings – Julia Turner
12.25 pm – 12.30 pm Any Other Business and Close of Meeting – Andy Hill
1.00 pm – 1.30 pm Lunch and Networking in Exhibition Area
Welcome – New Members, Guests and Retirees!
Company Name
Environment Agency Howard Leberman
Eesti Energia Ott Leht
HSE Tim Johnson
Renewi Marc Verhaar
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Graham Mills
Sureteam Peter Hodgson
Trackwork James Bowes
A&A Recycling Malcolm Green
AGM and Board Update
Andy Hill - Chair
2018 Draft Accounts
2018 Draft Accounts
2019 Approved BudgetWOOD RECYCLERS ASSOCIATION Draft Budget 2019
2019
Income Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Budget 18
Membership 8,694 8,694 8,694 8,694 8,694 8,694 8,694 8,694 8,694 8,694 8,694 8,694 104,328
Meeting guests 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 250 1,000
Advertising 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 6,000
Exhibition Revenue 0 0 600 0 0 600 0 0 0 0 0 600 1,800
Magazine revenue 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lunch Sponsorship 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Training/Workshops 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Co-ordinated outage data 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
113,128
Costs
ED Fee 5,600 5,600 5,600 5,600 5,600 5,600 5,600 5,600 5,600 5,600 5,600 5,600 67,200
Telephone 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 180
Post and stationery 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 480
Marketing/Advertising 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Conferences/meeting venues 0 0 2,500 0 0 2,500 0 0 2,500 0 0 2,500 10,000
Website 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 600 0 0 0 0 615
Accommodation 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 600
Travel & Subsistence 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 6,000
Consultancy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gifts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Accountancy 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 1,730 1,950
Training 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Entertainment 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bank charges/Worldpay charges 50 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 270
Sundry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
PR 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250 15,000
IT support 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 61 9 9 9 9 160
Allowance for bad debt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3,130 3,130
Travel/Expenses for Chair 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 2,400
Total expenditure 7,749 7,704 10,204 7,704 7,704 10,204 7,704 8,356 10,204 7,704 7,704 15,044 107,985
Profit/Loss 5,143
Board Update
Board Update
• Quarterly management Accounts to end January 2019
➢ Turnover of £121,222 Actual vs £118,003 Budget
➢ Expenditure of £112,736 Actual vs £114,144 Budget
➢ Surplus of £8,486 (£3,859 Budget) - better situation with debtors
➢Reserve Account - £42,390 – some will be used for WWC work
• Change in cancellation notice period
Activity Update
Julia Turner, Gayle Whittaker,
Richard Coulson & Vicki Hughes
WRA ED Activity Update• 4 new members this quarter, but have lost some too, so total of
104
• 2018 Statistics – high return rate, but still chasing final responses
• Business Plan Review
• Waste Wood Classification
• EU Exit Waste Management Briefings
• Resources and Waste Strategy – Range of events and launch of
Consultations
• Response to EA Charging Consultation
• Range of Stakeholder Engagement – Defra, EA, HSE, WRAP,
BEIS, OFGEM, CIWM, ESA, CPI, REA, RA and TRA
EPR Consultation• Big focus on cost recovery
• Four options for PRN system:
1. Central body to determine fees, Compliance schemes to implement
2. Central body to implement
3. Hybrid - Central body to implement household, compliance schemes to
implement C&I
4. Deposit based market systemInvolvement in range of meetings on wood
packaging
• Unsure what will mean for waste wood packaging
• Question mark on future targets
• Meeting with ACP Wood Sector Lead – John Dye President of
TIMCON together with WPIF
• Response to consultation due by 13 May
COMMUNICATIONS
Keeping waste wood in the headlines
How do we communicate with you?
Do you receive our Mailchimp newsletters?
Follow us on Twitter and Linked In
Would you like to be featured on our website?
Follow us on Twitter and Linked In
Do you know your local MP?
• Launching a project to increase engagement with MPs
• Aim to build a database of “friendly” MPs with interest in our industry
• Looking for WRA members willing to work with us to engage their local MP
• Will be co-ordinated centrally. You will be sent template letters, media releases etc. to help you engage
• Please get in touch with me
Technical Update
Vicki Hughes
Technical Update
• FPP
• Waste wood classification
• Biomass Suppliers List/RHI Guidance/Clean Air Strategy
FPP - Where are we now?
• General Feedback that things much better on the ground
• Requirement for further workshops?
• Any other Support needed?
• Any issues get in touch with Julia
WWC - Recap on Project Objectives
• Waste wood to be properly classified at the front end
• Waste wood to go to the correct end use
• Clear understanding of what is hazardous
• Identify the size of the problem
• Guidance to allow the supply chain to correctly classify waste wood
• Deliverables:
1. Interim RPS
2. Detailed Sampling Plans for both HWRC and C&D
3. One Report on Findings from both sets of sampling/testing
4. Final Guides for both Waste Wood and C&D Sectors
Where are we Now?
• C&D samples of structural timbers, tiling battens and external joinery from 1950s, 1960s and 1970s demolition projects being collected for laboratory testing – can you help?
• For household waste wood, evidence has shown that only fence posts and decking require further testing
• 300 samples will be collected and screened for metals content via XRF (X Ray Fluorescent)
• 30 of each type will then be sent to the laboratory for testing
• Initial Pilot completed and awaiting laboratory results to agree final XRF protocol
• Wider household waste wood testing will take place from April 2019
• RPS extended until end September 2019
Biomass Suppliers List/BSL
• Julia and Richard meeting with BEIS policy Advisor to
drive home WRA position of virgin or clean untreated pre-
consumer waste wood into non IED Chapter IV
• Air Quality Working Group – BEIS, Ofgem, DEFRA and EA
• 5 work streams➢ Understanding Air Quality impact of RHI
➢ Ofgem-led Enforcement
➢ Biomass Combustion in Urban Areas – Consultation response
from WRA
➢ Waste Wood Guide
➢ Efficiency of Boilers
• Clean Air Strategy – work in progress
Environment Agency Update
Howard Leberman
Election Results
Andy Hill
Health and Safety Update
Tim Johnson
Health and Safety Executive
The Impact of a Lower
Hardwood Dust
Workplace Exposure
Limit
Tim Johnson HMI
Woodworking Sector
As Low as is Reasonably Practicable
(ALARP) & Workplace Exposure Limit (WEL)
• “A WEL is the maximum concentration of
a hazardous substance that should be
found in the air averaged over a specific
time period to give a time-weighted
average.”
• ALARP applicable to asthmagens and
carcinogens and is “ As low as is
reasonably and in any case below the
WEL”
Update
• The WEL for hardwood dust lowering
from the current 5mg/m3 to 3mg/m3 in
January 2020
• Further reduction in 2023 to 2mg/m3
• Brexit is unlikely to affect this reduction
• As low as is reasonably practicable
(ALARP) will STILL APPLY.
Effect on softwood only ?
• Asthmagens are covered by reg7(5) of
Control of Substances Hazardous to
Health.
• Will softwood levels mirror hardwood
reduction ?
What will potentially change ?
1) Current woodworking industry practice ?
2) HSE inspection/enforcement policy ?
3) HSE and industry guidance ?
4) Central approach to industry control ?
Current industry practice ?
• Practical change to achieve current
standards in ALL woodworking premises .
• Industry attitude change to achieving
ALARP.
HSE Inspection /enforcement
policy
• Current inspection emphasis on wood
dust control and health is unlikely to
change.
• However, changes likely to include more
in depth inspection of current control
measure efficiency.
• Enforcement where controls cannot be
demonstrated to be effective to ALARP.
• HSE guidance adequate to achieve
2mg/m3 and below in most woodworking
processes.
• Increased publicity and emphasis for
current guidance?
• Guidance specific to wood recycling ?
• Slight change in emphasis on prevention
pre process .
HSE and industry Guidance
• Emphasises importance of strategy.
• Emphasises need for central approach
• Selling point to industry for strategy.
Central industry control
Overall message
• There will be costs to industry which for
wood recycling are unknown.
• That cost will be more onerous for those
businesses which are not complying with
current standards and guidance !!!
• The wood sector needs to start taking
stock - now !
Date/Location of Future Meetings
2019 Meetings
• June 12th – Enva Wood Recycling, Middlesbrough
• September 11th TBC near RWM
• December 4th TBC
• 2020 – Looking for more site tour locations