McQuillan Envirocare Seminar - New Hazardous Waste Regulations – Are you Compliant?

McQuillan Envirocare, held a half day seminar on the 30th November 2004 at the Ramada Hotel, Belfast, aimed at educating local industry on recent and forthcoming changes to the Special/Hazardous Waste Regulations .

Allison Townley of the Environment & Heritage Service, Special Waste Section opened the event by giving a brief overview of the forthcoming Hazardous Waste regulations, which will apply stricter controls on the movement of hazardous waste and see many more waste types re-classified.

Further detail on the exact changes to the classifications were then described by Nigel Naisbitt of Enviros, who explained the new ‘absolute’ and ‘mirror’ entries which have changed the hazardous threshold concentrations and make classification of waste more difficult.

Delegates were also given information on their legal responsibility with regard to the storage and transport of hazardous wastes and on the final disposal options now available.

Following the introduction of the Landfill Directive in July 2004, Northern Ireland has no hazardous waste landfill facility at all. The new waste classifications will also see the quantity of local hazardous waste arising increase significantly. Companies will therefore have to look more closely at how they classify, manage and dispose of their waste.

Information on the regulations and the correct assessment and classification of your waste is available by contacting a member of the Envirocare team on 028 9446 6708.

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