Banned from landfill

All landfill sites must have licenses regulations are changing all the time so you must keep up with Environment Agency guide lines.

•  Pollution prevention and control (PCC permitting ) commenced                 6^th April 2008
•  Waste management licensing ( WML) commenced 6^th April 2008
•  Batteries directive commenced 5^th May 2009
• Mining waste Directive commenced 7^th July 2009

 Waste that has been banned from landfill.

• Used tyres
• Infectious clinical waste (from hospitals, medical or veterinary)
• Explosive (ammunition, gunpowder, flares, detonators.)
•  Corrosive (acid or alkaline sludge.)
•  Flammable with flash point of 55c(magnesium, phosphorus, alcohol or camphor)
• Oxidising (ammonium nitrate, potassium chlorate, potassium permanganate, sodium chlorate.

Future environmental permitting

•  Waste carriers & brokers registrations     Date expected   summer 2010
• Water discharge consent                                      Date expected  April  2010
• Groundwater authorisations                              Date expected April   2010
• Radioactive substances regulations                Date expected April   2010
• Water abstraction & impoundment licences  Date expected April 2011
• Revised waste exemptions                                  Date expected April 2010

 (See Netregs for further information)

Related posts:

1. Environmental Permits
2. Revised Waste Exemptions
3. Handling, Transfer and Transport of Waste
4. How End Of Life Vehicles Law Affects You
5. Detergent Regulations coming into Force April 2010