Environmental Legislation Update - Steve Cawthorne to BESST 2- June 2012

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Waste Regulation Overview and
Legislation Update
Steve Cawthorne
Environment Officer (Waste)
Midlands Region
20 June 2012
I will cover …
Waste Regulation – Main Areas
Illegal sites stats
Upcoming / Recent changes
The Waste (England & Wales) Regulations 2011
Sources of information
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Crime Watch Moment
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Remediation measures
Main areas of waste regulation
Environmental Permitting for Waste Handling
Duty of Care
Waste Carrier / Broker Registration
Hazardous Waste
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Packaging
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Environmental Permitting for waste
Exemptions
for low risk activities that don’t need a permit. – Ongoing transition
Standard Permits
a set of fixed rules for common activities.
Bespoke permits
written specifically for your activity.
Continuing Technical Competence
Obtained COTC certificate before 6th April 2008 ?
Deadline for demonstrating continuing technical competence -
29th February 2012
Check with approved competence scheme
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Exemption transitions - ongoing
Paragraph 13 or Paragraph 21 exemption willl no longer be
able to carry out your waste operations after 5 April 2012
unless you have either:
registered for a new, free of charge waste exemption (if you
meet all the conditions and limits) or,
have made an application for an environmental permit.
Next transition date 1 October 2012 – Para’s 7, 11, 17 etc
Waste Exemption Transitions
Old Paragraph 9, 10, and 19
Ability to rely on these old exemptions ended
1 October 2011
Check your / your contractors exemption status
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Duty of Care
If you produce, import, keep,
transport, treat or dispose of
waste, you must:
keep it safely
handle or dispose of it by
authorised people
ensure it is accompanied
by a written description
and waste transfer note
Recent Changes - Waste Transfer Notes
From 28th September 2011 declaration on transfer note (or consignment note
for hazardous waste) that the waste management hierarchy has been
applied.
Include 2007 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes
Consultation on other forms of acceptable evidence aswell as transfer notes
Electronic Duty of Care Programme (edoc).
Estimated roll out 2014
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Waste Hierarchy
March 2011 – 661 IIlegal Waste Sites
Types of Illegal Waste Site
3%
2% 7%
4% 25%
5%
25%
29%
Household and/or Commercial Construction and Demolition
End of Life Vehicles/Vehicle Parts Tyres
WEEE* Hazardous
Scrap Metal Other
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Waste Carriers / Brokers/ Dealers
You must register with us (upper tier £154) if you:
transport controlled waste as a business or for profit and are
not the waste producer.
are self-employed, a partnership or company (multi-national
companies to electricians and plumbers) transporting
construction and demolition waste
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Changes for Waste Carriers, Brokers and
Dealers
There are now 3 types of registrant:
carriers (those who actually move waste)
dealers (those who use an agent to buy and sell waste) and
brokers (those who arrange for the movement/disposal of waste on behalf of
others).
The term ‘Dealer’ is a new term.
From December 2013, if you normally and regularly carry your own waste in
the course of any business or for profit, you must register as a lower tier
carrier
(£ free)
Carrier Registration Certificates
New Format
Need to check to ensure correct details are used on paperwork
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Hazardous Waste Regulations
Hazardous waste - harmful to
human health or the environment
e.g. asbestos, fluorescent light
tubes, cathode ray tubes, oils,
solvents, batteries, chemicals.
Producers, over 500kg/yr,must
register with us
Consignment note system
If you Produce Hazardous waste
The regulations introduce a new hazardous property H13
(sensitising) and the old 13 has now become H15 (waste
capable by any means after disposal of yielding another
substance, eg leachate, which possesses any of the H1 to H14
hazardous properties).
Anyone who produces, handles or manages hazardous waste
must take all reasonable measures to apply the waste hierarchy
when they transfer waste.
A new consignment note is available and you will need to sign a
declaration on the note to say that you have made these
considerations. You can chose to use the new consignment
notes immediately but they do not have to be used until 28
September 2011.
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Other rules that may affect you
WEEE Regulations
Packaging Waste Regulations
if you have £2 million turnover or handle 50 tonnes or more of
packaging a year
EU End of Waste regulations
Effective 9 October 2011
a regulation specifying that scrap
ferrous and aluminium metals will
cease to be waste if they meet certain
standards.
May affect producer responsibility for
packaging & permitting regime.
No approved accreditation body as yet
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Separate Waste Collections
The regulations also require the separate
collection of waste paper, metal, plastic and
glass from 1 January 2015
Any person who collects any of four waste
streams – paper, metal, plastic or glass – must,
from 1 January 2015, take practical measures to
ensure separate collection of these wastes.
Before 2015, it would be advisable for waste
producers to consider any measures they might
need to take to ensure that their wastes can be
collected separately.
Summary
Any information on Fly tipped IBC ?
Permitting, DOC, Haz Waste, Carriers, WEEE
Changes due to Waste Regulations 2011
Waste Hierarchy
Transfer / Consignment Note changes
End of Waste – Ferrous and Aluminium
Separate collections / segregation
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Help is available
Environment Agency customer contact centre
03708 506 506
www.environment-agency.gov.uk
www.netregs.gov.uk
www.wrap.org.uk
www.envirowise.wrap.org.uk
www.nisp.org.uk
www.ktnetworks.co.uk
www.energysavingtrust.org.uk
www.carbontrust.co.uk
www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/regulation/129223.aspx
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/legislation/eu-framework-directive/
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/legislation/waste-hierarchy/
www.businesslink.gov.uk
Information from Government / arms length body websites is currently being
migrated to central sites such as the business link website making it easier to
find the information you need in the future.
Thank You
Any questions?
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