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Hazardous waste regulations
Compliance is not optional
Greg Bordiak, technical officer at BCAS looks at the Hazardous Waste
regulations and how to comply
f course I comply’, ‘I have a licence’, or These regulations identify the charges to be made for
‘O
‘what registration to get rid of waste!’ the activities related to the Hazardous Waste
Some typical responses to dealing with Regulations. Have you checked to see if there are new
hazardous waste in the compressed air forms required or charges to be paid or even
industry but the plain fact is that ignorance of the exemptions you may benefit from or registrations to be
law is no defence. made under these regulations so that you can still
comply with and carry on legally in your business. Do
Plain ignorance should not be an issue since the you still comply?
Environment Agency have provided many pieces of
information on their website and in the form of For further information related to the
information booklets. Having read the information the Hazardous Waste Regulations and
subsequent understanding may not necessarily end up the compressed air industry
with taking a cost effective route to satisfy the needs of contact BCAS, Greg Bordiak by
the law. email on greg@bcas.org.uk
As a provider of service and maintenance you may
well be taking away a volume of oil from say a
compressor. Are you aware of the Consignment
Note required and the charge that goes with this
to your customer levied by the Environment
Agency? Also where is the oil taken to,
perhaps your own ‘head quarters’, has your
company got a licence to store this oil? If
yes, then is the company aware that
there is a possibility that if the right
criteria are met then that storage on
the company site could benefit
from an exemption. The
difference being that the site
licence is at considerable cost
and the exemption is free.
So I issue a Consignment
Note, make a charge, my
storage site has a licence
or is exempt, and I use a
licensed carrier to remove
the bulk oil from time to
time, so yes I comply.
That then means you
also provide the
DANGER
customer with a
quarterly report of the oil
movement from
collection from his site
until final disposal….. or Hazardous
do you?
The Environmental
Permitting (EP)
Regulations came into
waste
force on 6 April 2008.
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