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Waste (Waste Management (EPA Role on Waste Management (Guidance note on…

- - - - Require that two or more local authorities jointly make a waste management plan and replace it with the old one
    - - The minister may make regulations prescribing any matter or thing is referred to in the Waste Management Act 1996
        
        Regulations made under this Act may make different provisions in relation to different areas, different circumstances, different classes of persons or waste and different waste management or other activities
      - The Minister may by order amend or revoke an order made by him or her under this Act and by direction amend or revoke a direction given by him or her under this Act
  - - - Pharmaceutical, medicinal or veterinary compounds
      - Wood preservatives
      - Anatomical substances, hospital or other clinical waste
      - Biocides or phyto-pharmaceutical substances
      - Residue from substances employed as solvents
      - Halogenated organic substances not employed as solvents, excluding inert polymerized materials
      - Tempering salts containing cyanides
      - Mineral oils or oily substances and water or hydrocarbon and water
    - - Deep injection of the soil, including injection of pumpable discards into wells, salt domes or naturally occurring repositories
      - Surface impoundment, including placement of liquid or sludge discards into pits, pond or lagoons
      - Land treatment, including biodegradation of liquid or sludge discards in soils
      - Specially engineered landfill, including placement into lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one another and the environment
      - Deposit on, in or under land
      - Biological treatment not referred to elsewhere in this Schedule which results in final compounds or mixtures which are disposed of by means of any activity referred to in this Schedule
      - Incineration on land or at sea
      - Permanent storage, including emplacement of containers in a mine
    - - Prodcution and consumption residues
      - Products which have not bee manufactured in accordance with the specifications relating to them
      - Products who have past their expiration date
      - Materials spilled,lost or which have undergone any other mishap
      - Contaminated materials or soiled as a result of planned actions
      - Unusable parts
      - Substances which no longer perform satisfactorily
      - Residues from pollution abatement processes or industrial processes
    - - any activity carried on for the purposes of reclaiming, recycling or re-using, in whole or in part, the waste and any activities related to such reclamation, recycling or re-use
  - - - Can engage or participate in the recovery of waste
        
        Use, sell or dispose of any material or thing, including energy, recovered from waste
        
        Buy or aquire waste for the purpose of recovering it
    - - Minister shall publish guidelines and criteria in relation to the prevention, minimisation and recovery of waste, to which public authorities shall have regard in the performance of their functions, and such guidelines and criteria #
        
        Objectives with regard to the use by public authorities of materials recovered from waste
        
        The conduct by public authorities of waste audits and the implementation and operation by them of waste reduction programmes and the publication of the results of such audits and programmes
        
        Consideration given by public authorities to the likely effects on the environment of particular goods or services they propose to purchase or engage
        
        The content, publication, implementation and review of public authority waste management plans
- - - - Monitors and controls the licensing of waste activities .
        
        Landfills
        
        Transfer stations
        
        Hazourdus Waste Disposal
        
        Transfer of hazardous waste
        
        hazardous waste management
        
        Large and significant waste disposal
      - Waste Management (licensing) regulations 2004-2011
        
        For specific waste activities
        
        Landfill Levy
        
        Registration of Brookers and Dealers
        
        Facility permits and registrations
        
        Industrial emission licensing
        
        Penalties
        
        Licensing fees
    - - NWCPO (National Waste Collection Permit Office)
        
        HQ: Offaly County Council
        
        Process and grant all new Waste Collection Permit applications for all Waste Management Regions in the Republic of Ireland. Also review existing licences and implement all amendments to legislation
      - Control of small scale waste activities
      - Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007 (SI no. 820/2007)
        
        Local Authorities grant & enforce waste permits and certificates of registration for small scale waste management
      - Waste Collection Permit (SI 820/2007)
        
        All companies involved in the transport of waste must be registered or licensed
- - - - January 2015
        
        95% Reuse and Recover
        
        85% Reuse and Recycle
    - - Hexavalent Chromium
      - Cadmium
      - Mercury
      - Lead
  - - - It sets targets for recovery and recycling
      - requires the encouragement of the use of recycled packaging materials in the manufacturing of packaging and other products
      - requires packaging to comply with essential requirements
        
        the minimisation of packaging volume and weight,
        
        the design of packaging to permit its reuse or recovery
  - - - An IPPC licence covers the storage of hazardous waste
      - For non-licence holders, temporary storage of hazardous waste needs to be authorised by the local authority
        
        But only where the storage period is less than 6 months and the quantities being stored do not exceed 25,000L or 40 metres cubed of waste
    - - The Waste Management Regulations requires all producers to keep specific records of any hazardous waste arising from their premises
        
        The records must set out:
        
        the quantity, nature and origin of the waste
        
        any treatment carried out
        
        The quantity, nature, destination, frequency of collection and mode of transport of any hazardous waste transferred
        
        IPPC licence holders must keep addition records
        
        Records must kept for a minimum of 3 years
    - - Explosive
      - Carcinogenic
      - Highly flammable
      - Irritant
      - Oxidising
      - Toxic
      - Harmful
      - Category II
        
        Animal fats
        
        Non-Halogenated Organic Substances
        
        Spent Catalyst Materials
        
        Contaminated Equipment
        
        Metallic Dust and Powder
      - Category I
        
        Solvents
        
        Biocides
        
        Hospital Waste
        
        Halogenated Organic Substances
        
        Pharmaceutical Waste
    - - Local authorities
      - EPA
- - - - Authorised by waste collection permit
        
        Area in Ireland of operation
        
        Specified tiers of Waste hierarchy
        
        Type of Waste Collected
    - - Waste Transport Form (WTF)
        
        Purchased Online
        
        Filled out by Producer of waste
        
        Allows easy Identification of waste by
        
        Carrier
        
        Consignee
  - - - Green List Waste
        
        Separated and potentially recyclable materials of low potential environmental impact
      - Dublin City Council responsible for enforcement throughout the Ireland
        
        Charges a fee for general enforcement activities
      - Amber List Waste
        
        Hazardous and non-hazardous wastes of potential environmental signiﬁcance
        
        Prior informed concent
        
        Country of Dispatch, Receipt, and Transit have prior knowledge of shipment and can object