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National Policy Statement Draft On Hazardous Waste Published For Consultation

15 July 2011

Defra's draft National Policy Statement (NPS) on the provision of major new infrastructure for Hazardous Waste has been published today for consultation

Treatment of hazardous waste is essential for public health and a clean environment. Only relatively small amounts of hazardous waste are currently sent for recycling and recovery and new facilities are needed to allow more to be recycled and recovered to properly implement the waste hierarchy.

The draft National Policy Statement for Hazardous Waste is one of a series being drawn up under the Planning Act 2008.

The objective of the Act is to provide a more streamlined system for obtaining development consent for new major infrastructure and will provide a greater degree of certainty to potential developers.

The draft National Policy Statement builds on the Strategy for Hazardous Waste Management in England issued by Defra in 2010. It establishes criteria to be used by applicants in applying for development consent and by decision makers in considering these applications.

The consultation will last for 14 weeks, closing on 20 October 2011.

Facilities identified as needed in the draft NPS include:

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Plants to deal with Flat Panel Displays (from TVs and computers), which contain mercury;

Oil Regeneration Plants to recycle used lubricants to a high standard to produce new base lubricating oil;

Facilities to treat the air pollution control residues arising from the treatment of flue gases from municipal waste incinerators and energy from waste facilities;

Thermal Desorption facilities, which would typically treat waste contaminated with oil such as oily sludges;

Bioremediation/soil washing facilities to treat contaminated soil and reduce amounts sent to landfill;

Ship Recycling Facilities;

Hazardous waste landfill (Although landfill must be seen as the last resort, there are some hazardous wastes such as a asbestos for which it will remain the only option. There may be a limited need for new hazardous waste facilities in future).

Further information can be found HERE