D – Duty of Care The Duty of Care, imposed under section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, applies to anyone who produces, imports, stores, transports, treats or disposes of waste. It requires them to take all reasonable steps to ensure the waste is managed properly. A breach of this duty of care could result […]
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Albion Environmental Ltd has recently assisted JM Murdoch with their application for a Part B PPC permit for a mobile plant for the crushing and screening of brick, tiles and concrete. Three weeks after the submission of the PPC application, SEPA communicated their plans to grant the permit to JM Murdoch. This is another successfully addressed
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Albion Environmental Limited is delighted to announce that in association with CIWM and Zero Waste Scotland, Sam Grant Dip, HNC, MCIWM has been approved to deliver Waste Smart training at both foundation and advanced levels. The Waste Smart course was developed by CIWM to provide industry standard training that could be adopted by all business
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The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and authorities in the Republic of Ireland are working on returning approximately 2,000 tonnes of waste from a site near to Killadeas in County Fermanagh to a fully authorised landfill site in the Republic of Ireland. This is the third site in Northern Ireland in the current financial year
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In June last year the EA modified their CCS as it was being applied inconsistently to industry which was causing problems for operators. This note is just a reminder on how the scheme works and the importance this has in respect to your Operational performance Risk Appraisal (OPRA) scoring. The Compliance Classification Scheme (CCS) provides
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The most hazardous plastics and certain plastic bags should be banned by 2020, as part of an EU strategy to reduce plastic waste in the environment, says the European Parliament in a resolution voted on Tuesday. The EU should also introduce binding plastic waste recycling targets, Members of the European Parliament add. They also propose
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SEPA have written an open letter to clarify their expectations on the implementation of the Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2012 with regard to commercial waste services. The 2012 Regulations took effect on 1 January 2014, imposing new recycling obligations on your customers and minimum levels of service on your company/organisation. The purpose of this letter is
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The UNEP Governing Council of February 2013, in its decision GC 27/12 on Chemicals and Waste Management, requested UNEP “to develop a global outlook of challenges, trends and policies in relation to waste prevention, minimization and management, taking into account the materials life cycle, subject to the availability of extra-budgetary resources and in consultation with
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In Scotland, the Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2012 came into force on 1 January. These establish a legal duty on every business, regardless of size, to separate metal, plastic, paper, card and glass for recycling, as well as banning these separated materials from being sent to landfill or incinerators. The devolved government is also introducing a
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Landfill tax operators are set to lose out on millions of pounds of landfill tax refunds after a decision by HMRC to take a tough line over taxation rules around waste used on landfill sites for roads, capping and liners. HMRC has, with revised legal advice, restated that such waste, often known as “fluff”, is
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