PPC Permitting: Non-Landfill or Incineration Waste Management Facilities

PPC Regulations 2000 SI1973 Schedule 1 Reference

Application Window

Section 5.3 – Disposal of waste other than by incineration or landfill

(a)      The disposal of hazardous waste (other than by incineration or landfill) in a facility with a capacity of more than 10 tonnes per day.

(b)      The disposal of waste oils (other than by incineration or landfill) in a facility with a capacity of more than 10 tonnes per day.

(c)      Disposal of non-hazardous waste in a facility with a capacity of more than 50 tonnes per day by -     

(i) biological treatment, not being treatment specified in any paragraph other than paragraph D8 of Annex IIA to Council Directive 75/442/EEC, which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D1 to D12 in that Annex (D8); or.

(ii) physico-chemical treatment, not being treatment specified in any paragraph other than paragraph D9 in Annex IIA to Council Directive 75/442/EEC, which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D1 to D12 in that Annex (for example, evaporation, drying, calcination, etc.) (D9).

If the installation in which a disposal activity takes place has the legal and physical capacity to receive or store more than the specified tonnages of such waste in any one day then it will require PPC permitting.

Section 5.4 – Recovery of Waste

(a) Recovering by distillation of any oil or organic solvent.

(b) Cleaning or regenerating carbon, charcoal or ion exchange resins by removing matter which is, or includes, any substance listed in paragraphs 12 to 14 of Part 2 of this Schedule.

(c) Unless carried out as part of any other Part A activity, recovering hazardous waste in plant with a capacity of more than 10 tonnes per day by means of the following operations -

(i)                   the use principally as a fuel or other means to generate energy (R1);

(ii)         solvent reclamation/regeneration (R2);                   

(iii)        recycling/reclamation of inorganic materials other than metals and metal compounds (R5);                   

(iv)        regeneration of acids or bases (R6);                   

(v)         recovering components used for pollution abatement (R7);                   

(vi)        recovery of components from catalysts (R8);                   

(vii)       oil re-refining or other reuses of oil (R9).

1 Jun – 31 Aug 2005

1 Nov 2006 to 31 Jan 2007

1 Apr – 30 June 2006

1 Apr – 30 June 2006

1 Jan – 31 March 2005 for all section 5.4 activities

DISPOSAL OPERATIONS

D 1 Deposit into or onto land (e.g. landfill, etc.)

D 2 Land treatment (e.g. biodegradation of liquid or sludgy discards in soils,etc.)

D 3 Deep injection (e.g. injection of pumpable discards into wells, salt domes or naturally occurring repositories, etc.)

D 4 Surface impoundment (e.g. placement of liquid or sludgy discards into pits, ponds or lagoons, etc.)

D 5 Specially engineered landfill (e.g. placement into lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one another and the environment, etc.)

D 6 Release into a water body except seas/oceans

D 7 Release into seas/oceans including sea-bed insertion

D 8 Biological treatment not specified elsewhere in this Annex which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 12

D 9 Physico-chemical treatment not specified elsewhere in this Annex which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 12 (e.g. evaporation, drying, calcination, etc.)

D 10 Incineration on land

D 11 Incineration at sea

D 12 Permanent storage (e.g. emplacement of containers in a mine, etc.)

D 13 Blending or mixing prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 12

D 14 Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 13

D 15 Storage pending any of the operations numbered D 1 to D 14 (excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it is produced)

Key:

Disposal operations relating to both section 5.3(a) (hazardous waste) and 5.3(c) (non-hazardous waste)

Disposal operations only relating to section 5.3(a) (hazardous waste)

RECOVERY OPERATIONS

R 1 Use principally as a fuel or other means to generate energy

R 2 Solvent reclamation/regeneration

R 3 Recycling/reclamation of organic substances which are not used assolvents (including composting and other biological transformationprocesses)

R 4 Recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds

R 5 Recycling/reclamation of other inorganic materials

R 6 Regeneration of acids or bases

R 7 Recovery of components used for pollution abatement

R 8 Recovery of components from catalysts

R 9 Oil re-refining or other reuses of oil

R 10 Land treatment resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecologicalimprovement

R 11 Use of wastes obtained from any of the operations numbered R 1 to R 10

R 12 Exchange of wastes for submission to any of the operations numbered R 1to R 11

R 13 Storage of wastes pending any of the operations numbered R 1 to R 12 (excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where it isproduced)

Key:

Hazardous waste recovery operations covered by section 5.4(c) if >10TPD

Hazardous waste Recovery operations not covered by section 5.4(c)