Changes to Waste Exemptions You may remember our old post from 2023 (Waste Exemption Changes to Prevent Crime in Waste Sector – AC Environmental) and our more recent post from January of this year when the Agency introduced us to the coming changes to the waste exemptions regime. The changes were drastic, including removal of…
Change to Qualifications? As you will know from our previous post on this topic, the Environment Agency introduced eight new Standard Rules permits which have replaced a range of old Standard Rules permits effective from 18th December 2024. One question that this raised, which was unanswered, was what impact did this have on the Wamitab/COTC…
Changes to permits. In our post of 7th January we highlighted the changes to Standard Rules Permits. The principle change we saw was to the definition of a building. Many sites have buildings that are three sided but the new definition requires a building to be fully enclosed with doors as small as possible. This…
Changes to Standard Rules Permits introduced. The Environment Agency have introduced changes to a set of new Standard Rules permits to streamline and tighten up on Standard Rules permitting. The new Standard Rules permit for general waste treatment is SR2022 no4, SR2022 No 4: non-hazardous waste recycling with asbestos, hazardous batteries, cable and WEEE storage…
Waste Exemption Changes to Prevent Crime in Waste Sector Changes to the waste exemptions regime will protect legitimate waste industry companies. This light-touch style of regulation allows for the registration of some low-risk, small-scale waste activities. However, we know that some waste exemptions have been frequently used by unscrupulous operators to conceal unlawful waste activities from…
A recent change to the continuing competence regime appears to have been made without any formal announcement. We first came across the change in an Environmental permit application to Natural Resources Wales when the clients Continuing Competence Certificate for Hazardous Waste Treatment was rejected for a non-hazardous treatment permit application. The officer referred to the…
The Environment Agency has told its staff to “shut down” and ignore reports of low-impact pollution events because it does not have enough money to investigate them, according to a leaked internal report. Exceptions to the rule will be pollution incidents caused by a regulated site or a water company, says the briefing, although it…