Transcript Waste Theory Session

Waste Theory Session
Duty of care
• You have a duty to ensure that any waste you
produce is handled safely and within the law .
• It applies to anyone who produces, imports,
transports, stores, treats or disposes of
controlled waste
• You must check that anyone that you pass
your waste on to is authorised to take it.
• People you might pass your waste on to include:
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waste contractors
scrap metal merchants
recycling companies
your local council
skip hire companies.
• The duty of care has no time limit. It extends
until the waste has either been finally disposed of
or fully recovered.
Duty of Care –
What Do You Have to Do?
• You must store and dispose of all your waste
responsibly
• Ensure your waste is only handled or dealt
with by authorised people or businesses.
• Ensure you keep records of all waste that you
transfer or receive for at least two years.
Waste Transfer Notes (WTN)
• Document accompanying any transfer of waste
between different holders.
• Purpose to allow people to know what they are
dealing with, so it can be safely & properly
managed.
• You must create a WTN for each load of waste
that leaves your site.
• For repetitive transfers, you can use a 'season
ticket’, i.e. one transfer note will cover multiple
transfers over a given period of time of up to 12
months.
What information should a WTN
contain?
• Enough information about the waste to enable anyone
coming into contact with it to handle it safely, & either
dispose of it or allow it to be recovered within the law.
• In England and Wales, you should describe the quantity &
types of each different waste being transferred on the WTN,
both in words and by using the appropriate codes in the List
of Wastes (England) Regulations 2005.
Who needs to sign the WTN?
• You should NEVER rely on waste carriers or
waste management contractors to describe
your waste for you on WTNs.
• As the producer, you are to describe your
waste accurately. It is not acceptable to use
non-specific terms, e.g. 'general waste' or
'inert waste'.
• Both you and the waste carrier must sign the
WTN before the waste leaves your site.
Consignment Note for Hazardous
Waste
• The transfer documentation for hazardous or
special waste is called a 'consignment note'. If
your waste has hazardous properties, you may
need to treat it as hazardous/special waste.
• Waste that is defined by the European Waste
Catalogue (EWC) as hazardous can only go to a
waste treatment facility that is licensed to
receive hazardous waste.
Waste Carriers
• If you arrange for your waste to be taken away by a waste
carrier, They must be:
– a registered carrier of controlled waste
– exempt from registration as a carrier of controlled waste
– a waste collection authority in England and Wales
• A registered carrier should be able to produce a current
certificate of registration or a certified copy. Look for expiry
date!
• You can also check the public registers held by your
environmental regulators to see if your carrier is registered.
• Final location
Exemptions
• Exempt organisations
• Exempt waste types
Hazardous Waste
Hazardous waste is waste that may be harmful to
human health or the environment. Examples
include:
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asbestos
chemical wastes
healthcare wastes
electrical equipment containing hazardous components such as
cathode ray tubes or lead solder
fluorescent light tubes
lead-acid batteries
oily sludges
pesticides
solvents.
How to Determine if a Waste is
Hazardous?
The European Waste Catalogue (EWC) Hazardous waste is identified in the
EWC with an asterisk (*):
• some wastes, called 'absolute entries', are always classed as hazardous,
for example inorganic wood preservatives, waste paint or varnish remover
and wastes from asbestos processing
• other wastes, called 'mirror entries', are classed as hazardous if they are
present in amounts above certain threshold concentrations, for example
some wastes containing arsenic or mercury.
Your environmental regulator has produced guidance that:
• will help you determine if your waste is hazardous
• lists the waste types in the EWC
• provides advice on classifying and assessing hazardous waste.
What To Do If Your Waste Is
Hazardous
• Waste producers must keep consignment notes for three
years.
• You must ensure that all hazardous waste is stored and
transported with the correct packaging and labelling.
Clinical Waste
• Clinical waste includes waste that, unless made safe, could be
hazardous to anyone who comes into contact with it, and that
consists wholly or partly of:
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human or animal tissue
Blood, excretions other body fluids
drugs or other pharmaceutical products
swabs or dressings
syringes, needles or other sharp instruments.
• It also includes any other waste that could infect anyone who
comes into contact with it, and that arises from:
– medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, pharmaceutical or similar
practices
– investigation, treatment, care, teaching or research
– collecting blood for transfusion.
What You Must Do
• You must ensure that anyone dealing with clinical waste
complies with the duty of care for waste.
• You will need to deal with most clinical wastes as
hazardous/special waste.
• Clinical waste must be transported by a registered waste
carrier and transferred to a facility authorised to accept
that type of waste.
• If clinical waste consists of animals, or parts of
animals, you will need to comply with controls on
animal by-products.
Hazardous Clinical Wastes
• The following clinical wastes are classified as
hazardous/special waste:
• any waste that poses a risk of infection, including
sharp instruments
• cytotoxic and cytostatic medicinal wastes.
• The Department of Health provides guidance on
how to store and transport healthcare waste.
Many items of healthcare waste are classified as
‘dangerous goods’. They must be stored and
transported in specified packaging types and be
suitably labelled.
What You Need to Do
• Ensure that clinical waste and non-clinical
waste are properly separated.
• Consider using greater documentary control
than the duty of care for waste requires.
Examples include:
– a signed service delivery note between the you
and the haulage business.
– a waste acceptance record sheet.
– a certificate of safe destruction.
• Reduce clinical waste by exploring use of alternative
materials & practices that avoid production of clinical
waste.
• Consider whether any benefit can be obtained from
clinical waste. For example, you may be able to recycle
waste, or use it in an energy-from-waste plant.
• You must ensure that clinical waste is stored and
transported in suitable containers. Regularly check storage
containers remain intact & there is no risk of pollution.
• Ensure containers are adequately & securely labelled to
identify producer and source of clinical waste.
Offensive Waste
• Offensive waste is non-infectious waste, which is unpleasant and may
cause offence to those coming into contact with it. It includes:
– outer dressings and protective clothing, e.g. masks, gowns and gloves
that are not contaminated with body fluids
– hygiene waste and sanitary protection, e.g. nappies and incontinence
pads
– autoclaved laboratory waste.
• Offensive waste does not include any of the following:
– sharps
– anatomical waste, e.g. body parts, organs or blood
– Chemicals & medicine
– dental amalgam
– any waste that is infectious (i.e. a clinical waste).
• If ANY of the above are present in the waste, it is not classed as offensive
waste.
Disposing of Offensive Waste
• Offensive waste is classified as non-hazardous waste.
• You must complete waste transfer notes for any waste
that leaves your site and keep copies of all waste
transfer notes for two years.
• You must ensure that your waste is stored, handled,
recycled or disposed of safely and legally.
• This waste should be placed in a ‘tiger bag’. A tiger bag
is a yellow bag with one or more broad black stripes.
• You must not place offensive waste in a clinical waste
container or a black refuse sack.
Waste electrical and electronic
equipment (WEEE)
• The WEEE Regulations aim to reduce the
amount of this waste going to landfill and
improve recovery and recycling rates.
• You may be prosecuted if you fail to comply
with the regulations.
• The WEEE Regulations apply to equipment
with a voltage of up to 1000 volts for
alternating current or up to 1500 volts for
direct current.
What are the WEEE Regulations?
• You will need to comply with the WEEE Regulations if
you generate, handle or dispose of waste that falls
under one of ten categories of WEEE:
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Large &small household appliances
IT and telecommunications equipment
Consumer equipment
Lighting equipment
Electrical and electronic tools
Toys, leisure and sports equipment
Medical devices
Monitoring and control equipment
Automatic dispensers.
Exemptions From WEEE Regulations
• Some types of WEEE are exempt from the Regulations.
They include the following equipment:
– Equipment that does not use electricity through battery or
mains supply to fulfil its main function.
– Filament light bulbs and household light fittings of any kind.
– Large industrial tools, permanently fixed in industrial
machinery or an industrial location.
– Equipment that is designed for use with a voltage rating
exceeding 1,000 volts AC or 1,500 volts DC.
– Contaminated medical implants and medical equipment.
– Spare parts that are used to repair WEEE.
– Consumables for WEEE, such as printer cartridges, are also
exempt.
WEEE That is Hazardous
• Some WEEE is classified as hazardous/special waste. This
includes WEEE that contains:
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polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
ozone depleting substances (ODS) (eg fridges and freezers)
asbestos
cadmium
lead
cathode ray tubes, found in televisions and older computer
monitors.
• If you are responsible for disposing of WEEE and it contains
hazardous/special waste, you must make sure it is treated
at an approved authorised treatment facility.
Disposing of WEEE
• A Waste Transfer Note must be completed for
all items of WEEE that are disposed.
• If the WEEE is hazardous a consignment note
must be completed for the item before
disposal.
• Redundant items of WEEE must be stored
safely.
Waste at the University
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Main waste contract with Premier Waste
Awarded through a tender process
Managed through Facilities
Number of other smaller/specific contracts which include
PHS, SCC, SRCL & Longhill
• Chosen and paid for by the faculty or service
• Recycling- plastic, card, cans & tins, paper, batteries,
fluorescent tubes, electrical products.
• Recycling Stats
http://services.sunderland.ac.uk/facilities/campusservices/recycling/
• Looking to expand- re-use scheme & food
waste
• Waste Segregation Sites at both campuses
• Waste Audit
– Due to commence imminently
– Aim to ensure a safe & compliant waste
management system is in place.
– Carry out a comprehensive review of current
waste management systems.
University Waste Audit
• What the audit is:
– a mechanism to ensure that we are not falling foul of
Government legislation.
– a method of identifying how waste can be disposed of my
effectively.
– a way of identifying more cost effective disposal.
• What the audit is not:
– An opportunity to pick fault with current procedures.
– An way of enforcing changes to current systems.
– A method for preventing current service providers from
being removed.