New Hazardous Waste (England Wales) Regulations apply from July 16 2005

After many years of consultation the Special Waste Regulations (1996) are to be replaced from 16 July 2005.

We have a section of our website here dedicated to the impact of these Regulations

These not only increase the number of wastes considered hazardous. They create new duties upon waste producers who have to pre-register (we can do it on a producers behalf) and on disposal sites (consignees).

Some new wastes include computer monitors and fluorescent tubes - The picture on the left is taken from the (RSA*) WEEE initiative. WEEE man is an awareness and education project about the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive. As part of the RSA’s manifesto challenge of moving towards a zero waste society, the project will raise awareness of WEEE and be a catalyst for action for consumers, retailers, designers and manufacturers to focus on successfully dealing with WEEE, including recycling, reuse, repair, refurbishment, and sustainable manufacturing. More details about WEEE man can be found at www.weeeman.org

The regulations shift the responsibility for capturing the data for hazardous waste movements from the Environment Agency (who struggled to do this with the old regulations) and placed it firmly with the consignees.

As a disposal site we will now capture that information for the EA with increased administrative and IT requirements (which will cost us around£20,000 per annum) and then make quarterly returns along with payments for each consignment that we accept (our estimate is that we will pay around£50,000 in new fees).

If you are one of our customers then this page will be updated from May 10 2005 to provide specific advise for you on how we will assist customers in meeting the new regulations

The regulations are available from HMSO here

http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2005/20050894.pdf

The Environment Agency has a portion of its website set up to explain the new regulations and to allow for online registration of premises codes and other advice

The Environment Agency - New Rules on Waste

* RSA - The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures&Commerce was founded in 1754 to encourage the development of a principled and prosperous society. More details can be found here

Page Last Updated : May 4 2005