Waste recycling and reprocessing

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Waste legislation Andrew MoagEnviros
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Waste as a business issue

• Waste is a major utility cost
• Handling waste with Duty of Care
• EHS waste regulation now in place
• New waste licensing regime
• A number of new EU legal changes

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Waste legislation

• Waste and Contaminated Land Order 1997
• Regulations
• Duty of Care
• Special waste
• PPC Permitting
• Waste Management Licensing
• Hazardous Waste Directive 1991
• Landfill Directive 1999
• End of Life Vehicles 2000
• WEEE Directive 2003

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Timeline for Major EU Waste legislation
ABP Regulation 2001
PPC 1996
Landfill Directive 1999
Hazardous waste directive 1991
Framework Directive on waste 1975
EWC Decision 2000
WEEE 2003
Waste Shipment Regulation 1993
ELV 2000
WAC decision 2002
Incineration 2000
Packaging Directive 1994
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Landfill Directive 1999

• The following wastes are not accepted at landfill
  under the Directive
• Liquid waste
• Waste which, in the conditions of the landfill is
  explosive, corrosive, oxidising, highly flammable
  or flammable (as defined in Annex III of
  Directive 91/689/EEC)
• Hospital and other clinical waste from medical or
  veterinary establishments which are defined as
  infectious under Directive 91/689/EEC
• Whole used tyres and shredded used tyres
  (excluding bicycle tyres and those with an
  outside diameter above 1,400 mm), and
• Any other type of waste that does not fulfil the
  acceptance criteria determined in accordance with
  Annex II.
• Only hazardous waste that fulfils the criteria in
  Annex II may be disposed of in a hazardous
  landfill. Landfill for non-hazardous waste may
  be used or

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Waste Planning in NI
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Current facilities

• Circa 100 landfills all inert or non hazardous
• Two former co disposal sites may accept
  stabilised hazardous waste
• Landfill residual capacity low in East lt 1.5yrs,
  high in Southern Group 8 yrs and moderate in
  North West group 5 yrs
• Recycling achieving 15 (Q4 2004)
• Kerbside rising to cover 40 of households

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Proposed facilities

• A series of new non hazardous landfills with
  circa 15 million m3 capacity
• No applications for hazardous waste landfill
• Two possible stabilised hazardous waste cells
• 3 applications for WEEE/Hazardous waste transfer
• Ireland capacity mainly for transfer

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Special waste arisings
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Summary for businesses

• Waste facility costs are rising
• Access to hazardous waste disposal limited
• Duty of Care
• Consigning hazardous materials
• Waste facility monitoring and auditing active
• Packaging obligation
• Pressure to recycle