Waste management changes coming soon!!

[Allsorts]

New waste regulations will change how you deal with your waste. You will have to consider the hierarchy of waste options – to prevent, reuse and recycle before you dispose of waste. In future, you will have to register to carry your own waste regularly.

Waste regulations 2011 – England and Wales
The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 will:

require businesses to confirm that they have applied the waste management hierarchy when transferring waste, and include a declaration on their waste transfer note or consignment note
introduce a two-tier system for waste carrier and broker registration, including a new concept of a waste dealer
make amendments to hazardous waste controls
exclude some categories of waste from waste controls.
The regulations implement the revised EU Waste Framework Directive 2008/98, which sets requirements for the collection, transport, recovery and disposal of waste.

Who will the Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 affect?
The regulations will affect businesses that:

produce waste
import or export waste
carry or transport waste
keep or store waste
treat waste
dispose of waste
operate as waste brokers or dealers.

Using the waste management hierarchy
The hierarchy sets out, in order of priority, the waste management options you should consider:

1.prevention
2.preparing for reuse
3.recycling
4.recovery, eg energy recovery
5.disposal.

Whenever you pass waste on to someone else, you will have to declare on the waste transfer note, or consignment note for hazardous waste, that you have applied the waste management hierarchy.

You must also include on the waste transfer note the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code of the person transferring the waste. You should continue to use the 2003 SIC codes on hazardous waste consignment notes.

These requirements will be introduced six months after the regulations come into force.

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Author: Donald Reid | enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk
Last updated: 10 March 2011

[gandh1]

Re: Waste management changes coming soon!!

this sounds like office-speak gobbeldey gook. no wonder weee is such a grey area, whatever happened to plain english???

hierarchy of waste?! wtf?! “prevention” = are they saying you HAVE to attempt to fix something before you replace it?

ps i thought the tories were supposed to be cutting red tape. not adding to it?

[Allsorts]

Re: Waste management changes coming soon!!

I think prevention is refering to preventing it entering the WEEE cycle… but we won’t know until these regulations become live… If I get the time I shall have a few words and see if I can get a definition.

George

[gandh1]

Re: Waste management changes coming soon!!

fact is they dont make these regulations identifiable enough to the average joe. they are too vague in order to cover everyone, but by being so vague they are unenforceable.

if the government want us to waste more of our own time adhering to these new laws, they need to spend a few hours of their own time telling each trade exactly what they can and cant do.

otherwise its fudging stupid waste of effort.

[kwatt]

Re: Waste management changes coming soon!!

I don’t know much about this yet but I’m sure I could research it if I had the time.

But, what I can tell you is this…

The EU (Brussels) is looking at a repair as being “preventing an item entering the waste stream” and therefore a repair as “recycling” as it prevents said item entering the waste stream.

Or, so I have it on good authority.

But before you comment, think about the implications. 😉

K.

[gandh1]

Re: Waste management changes coming soon!!

so any engineer wishing to repair an appliance needs a t11?

[kwatt]

Re: Waste management changes coming soon!!

I did say, think about it. 😉

K.

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