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Title: Hazardous Waste Are we nearly there yet


1
Hazardous Waste-Are we nearly there yet?
CIWM 2006
  • Roy Watkinson
  • Environment Agency

2
Contents
  • is it all sorted?
  • if not, why not?
  • what next ?
  • changing times developing regulation
  • current impacts
  • hazardous waste in 2010
  • the response

3
Changing times - Hazardous Waste, international
evolution
  • 1978 - Directive 78/319/EEC on Toxic and
    Dangerous Waste
  • 1983-89 OECD Decisions on hazardous waste
  • 1984 - Directive 84/631/EEC on Transfrontier
    Shipment of Waste
  • 1989 - Basel Convention on the Transboundary
    Movement of Hazardous and other Wastes and their
    Disposal
  • 1991 - Directive 91/689/EEC on Hazardous Waste
  • 1992 - OECD Decision C92 (39) Final on the
    Control of Wastes Destined for Recovery
    Operations
  • 1993 - Regulation 259/93/EEC on the Transboundary
    Movements of Waste (WSR)
  • 2001 - OECD Decision revised C2001(109) Final
  • 2006 - WSR Revised

4
Changing times- Hazardous Waste, national
evolution
  • 1972 - Deposit of Poisonous Waste Act
    (1st tier Local Authority regulation)
  • 1980 Control of Pollution Act 1974 S.17 Special
    Waste Regulations Waste Management Paper 23
    (2nd tier Waste Disposal Authority
    regulation)
  • 1996 Special Waste Regulations (as amended)
    (national Environment Agencies regulation WM1
  • 2005 Hazardous Waste Regulations WM2

5
Guided by
  • 1981 WMP 23 - Special Waste
  • 1996 - WM1 - Special Waste
  • 2003 - WM2 - Hazardous Waste
  • 2005 - WM2 - Hazardous Waste (revised)

6
Changing regulations - impact on complexity
7
- impact on amountA Growing Challenge 2004
8
Total special waste 2000 to 2005
9
Landfill 2004 to 2005 by month
10
HWR 2005- key issues and implications
  • emphasis shifted towards inclusion of
    environmental hazards as well as human health
    hazards
  • Mirror entries need to be assessed against all
    fourteen hazardous properties
  • possible need for testing
  • therefore more wastes will be covered by the
    ecotoxicity property (H14)

11
Newly Hazardous - changed status waste
  • Examples
  • Agricultural
  • Waste Electrical/Electronic Equipment
  • End of Life Vehicles
  • Batteries
  • Separately collected domestic fractions

12
Move From Special to Hazardous
  • In 2002
  • 200,000 producers of special waste
  • 90,000 active producers
  • 500,000 shipments per year
  • 6.1 million tonnes of special waste dealt with in
    England Wales in 2000
  • on implementation of new list expected
  • 1.5 million shipments per year
  • increase to c.600,000 producers of hazardous
    waste (plus farmers)

13
Registered Producers
  • original estimate c.110,000 registration in first
    year
  • initial peak of 33,000 at the outset.
  • estimate exceeded by August - 145,000 registered
  • still registering around 3000 new sites per week.
  • total to end of March 06 228,305

14
Top three registering -Hazardous Waste producers
15
Whats next- agenda drivers
  • Who is setting it? Who is in control? Is there
    any?
  • civil society- public opinion NGOs
  • scientific - technical progress
  • institutional -the Basel Convention, the European
    Commission
  • political - developing countries
  • regulatory
  • All interact

16
Hazardous Waste in 2010
  • Reasons for change
  • Rationality and rationalisation BaselHWD
  • proportionality
  • two-tier distinction still tenable?
  • Inconsistencies of a borrowed regime
  • hazardous versus polluting
  • acute vs chronic
  • environment vs man
  • management vs intrinsic property possession

17
More changeHazardous Waste in 2010
  • Reasons why not
  • no major drivers
  • tried and tested
  • stability and certainty
  • cost to business and regulator
  • inertia
  • Cost-benefit analysis of change?

18
Hazardous Waste in 2010
  • what could be affected
  • mixed substance /process list
  • hazard characteristics
  • Chapter 20 Domestic
  • anything ecotoxic
  • ashes

19
Whats next- opportunities
  • Opportunities for changing scope
  • Hazardous Waste/Framework Directive review
  • Household Hazardous Waste
  • Waste Shipments Regulation
  • Basel Convention/OECD/Transport
  • review of characteristics
  • H9 - infectious
  • H13 - yielding after disposal
  • H14 - eco-toxic
  • New characteristics ?

20
Whats next- opportunities
  • Opportunities for changing systems
  • GHS/REACH/
  • restricting substance use
  • specifying or restricting treatment options
  • EWL - adaptation/additional codes
  • refinement of testing methods
  • easing burdens?

21
Summary
  • Keep your eye on the ball!

22
Its All Over Now Thank You
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