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- Introduction
- Legislation
- Definition of waste
- The European Waste Catalogue (EWC)
- The Hazardous Waste Regulations
- What is hazardous waste
- The Hazardous Waste Regulations (and domestic waste)
- The Hazardous Waste Regulations (and business waste)
- Duty of care
- Health and safety
- Environmental permitting
- Landfill
- Staff competencies
- Ozone Depleting Substances Regulations
- Restriction of Hazardous Substances Regulations
- International shipment of waste
- Manufacture and use of chemicals
- Regulations in the devolved administrations
- European legislation in development
- Producer responsibility
- Key issues
- Contracts and service specifications
- Risk assessments
- Site security
- Segregating HHW from households
- Minimum service provision
- Separation of HHW items from mixed waste containers
- Disposal costs
- The Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) (Amendment) CHIP Regulations 2005
- Staff competences and training
- Communication with householders and businesses
- Acceptance and storage of household hazardous type waste
- Storage and segregation options
- Asbestos
- Automotive batteries
- Clinical waste
- Explosives
- Fire extinguishers
- Gas bottles
- Household and garden chemicals
- Household batteries
- Motoring products
- Oil and oil filters
- Paints and related products
- Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
- Fluorescent lighting tubes (gas discharge lamps)
- Cooling appliances containing refrigerants (fridges and freezers)
- Display equipment containing cathode ray tubes (TVs and monitors)
- Smoke alarms
- Other problematic wastes
- Key
issues for businesses
- Duty of care
- Storing and managing hazardous waste at your site
- Transfer and transportation
- Using electronic consignment notes
- SMEs and the Landfill Regulations
- Asbestos
- Portable batteries
- Automotive batteries
- Vehicle owners and operators
- Clinical Waste
- Fire extinguishers
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
- Gas cylinders
- Chemicals and solvents
- Tyres
- Motoring products (including oil)
- Paint
- Vegetable oil
- Potential support and solutions for buisness
- Case studies
- Minimising trade abuse at Haverton Hill HWRC
- Managing HHW at Redbridge Household Waste Recycling Centre
- Communicating with SMEs
- Accepting SME wastes in West Sussex
- Collecting IT WEEE from business in Scotland
- Distributor Take Back Scheme (WEEE)
- Battery collections
- Hampshire County Council's Waste Acceptance Policy
- Cost of collecting chemicals and other HHW at HWRCs
- Communication with the public on HHW issues
- Corporation of London householder and SME collection
- Dealing with traders at Durham County Council HWRCs
- Fly-tipping
- Private sector collections from SMEs
- Community RePaint
- Case Studies available on external websites
- Links
- Household Hazardous Type Waste Products List
A reasonable geographic spread of HWRC facilities for HHW should be provided in every WDA area. Both the proximity of the HWRC facilities to the households they serve and the availability of other HHW collection services should be considered in determining what is a reasonable geographic spread. In general:
- all HWRCs should have facilities for the more common types of HHW, including WEEE (hazardous WEEE such as cathode ray tube televisions and monitors, fridges, fluorescent tubes), gas bottles, automotive batteries, engine oil and household batteries.
- at least one HWRC in any WDA area should provide facilities for asbestos and for household and garden chemicals.
HWRCs can be designated as Designated Collection Facilities under the WEEE Regulations, the code of practice and more advice is available here.
If segregated HHW is presented at a HWRC that cannot accept it (i.e. does not have relevant facilities or is not permitted), it should be dealt with by:
- asking the householder to take it to a specified HWRC that can accept it.
- asking the householder to take it away and dispose of it via the bulky collection, toxic taxi or other suitable service.
If a site supervisor judges that it is unsafe for a householder to take hazardous waste away (e.g. in the case of a large, leaking container of unidentified chemicals) then the material concerned should be placed in a sealed screw top container or other UN approved container and temporarily stored in a locked container inaccessible to the public. Senior managerial staff and collection contractors should be immediately notified and the material should be collected for appropriate disposal as soon as possible.
Hazardous waste that has been dumped at the site should be removed for storage at an alternative HWRC with adequate facilities, or collected by a local authority’s collection contractor for treatment and disposal, as soon as possible.
If an item brought to the site is judged to represent an imminent danger to site staff or users, the site should be evacuated following a documented emergency procedure that includes notification to the emergency services.
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