Hazardous Waste in the Real World

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Hazardous Waste in the Real World

• Gill Weeks
• Cleanaway

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Hazardous Waste in the Real World

• What did we expect ?
• Whats the reality?
• Where are we going?
• What do we want?

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What did we expect?

• A shortfall in treatment capacity
• Hazardous landfill to be at a premium
• Greater demand for thermal treatment
• An increase in the overall volume of hazardous
  waste as new wastes caught

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Whats the reality?

• 4.2Mte hazardous waste being produced
• 1.3Mte being landfilled in hazardous sites /
  cells
• No significant increase in treatment reported
• High volume of CD waste landfilled before July
• Reclassification
• Storage on site of production?

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Whats the reality?
Agency data given to HWF
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Whats the reality?
Agency Data given to HWF
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Whats the reality?

• Landfill operators have applied for elevated WAC
  levels for all components (except DOC) and wastes
• Oily wastes continue to be landfilled as
  non-hazardous (5-10 oil)
• Waste is being accepted into non-haz landfill on
  a WAC or BAP analysis only
• WAC testing of non-granular waste (eg paint tins)
  is ad hoc and there is little guidance
• Consolidation and mixing under review

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Where are we going?

• Economic drivers are often stronger than
  regulatory issues CATNIP
• Money is being lost when regulation doesnt drive
  the market
• WEEE processing
• Animal by-products
• Producers are continuing to minimise haz waste

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Where are we going?

• We live in exciting times!
• Industry at a crossroads flurry of activity
• Investment is being made in new technology where
  markets are certain
• Materials recycling facilities (MRF)
• Mechanical biological treatment (MBT)
• Autoclave
• Energy from Waste
• Pyrolysis and gassification

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Where are we going?

• Capacity is being provided where a demonstrable
  need is identified
• Waste companies provide a range of integrated
  services
• Provide expert advice on the management of waste
• Developing partnerships with waste producers

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What do we want?

• The old chestnuts
• Certainty
• Clarity
• Consistency