The Pollution Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013

SECTION 6.8 THE TREATMENT OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATTER AND FOOD INDUSTRIES

Part A

(a) Tanning hides and skins at plant with a treatment capacity of more than 12 tonnes of finished products per day.

(b) Slaughtering animals at plant with a carcass production capacity of more than 50 tonnes per day.

(c) Disposing of or recycling animal carcasses or animal waste otherwise than by incineration falling within section 5.1 in plant with a treatment capacity exceeding 10 tonnes per day of animal carcasses or animal waste or, in aggregate, of both.

(d) Treatment and processing, other than exclusively packaging, of the following raw materials, whether previously processed or unprocessed, intended for the production of food or feed from—

(i) only animal raw materials (other than milk) at plant with a finished product production capacity of more than 75 tonnes per day;

(ii) only vegetable raw materials at plant with a finished product production capacity greater than 300 tonnes per day or 600 tonnes per day where the installation operates for a period of no more than 90 consecutive days in any year;

(iii) animal and vegetable raw materials, both in combined and separate products, with a finished product production capacity in tonnes per day greater than—

(aa) 75 if A is equal to 10 or more;

(bb) 300 - (22.5 × A) in any other case; or

(cc) where ‘A’ is the portion of animal material (in % of weight) of the finished product production capacity;

where, when calculating the weight of finished product for the purposes of paragraphs (i) to (iii), the weight of packaging must be ignored.

(e) Treating and processing milk, the quantity of milk received being more than 200 tonnes per day (average value on an annual basis).

Part B

(a) Unless falling within Part A of this section, treating feathers by hydrolysis where hydrogen sulphide or other sulphur containing compounds may be released into the air.

Part C

(a) Processing, storing or drying by the application of heat of the whole or part of any dead animal or any vegetable matter (other than the treatment of effluent so as to permit its discharge into waterways, underground strata or into a sewer unless the treatment involves the drying of any material with a view to its use as animal feedstuff) if—

(i) the processing, storing or drying does not fall within another section of this Schedule or Part A or B of this section and is not an exempt activity; and

(ii) the processing, storing or drying may result in the release into the air of a substance described in paragraph 9 of Part 2 of this Schedule or any offensive smell noticeable outside the premises on which the activity is carried out.

(b) Breeding maggots in any case where 5 kg or more of animal matter or of vegetable matter or, in aggregate, of both are introduced into the process in any week.

Interpretation of section 6.8

1.  In this section—

“animal” includes a bird or a fish;

“exempt activity” means—

(i)

any activity carried out in a farm or agricultural holding other than the manufacture of goods for sale;

(ii)

the manufacture or preparation of food or drink for human consumption but excluding—

(aa)

the extraction, distillation or purification of animal or vegetable oil or fat otherwise than as a activity incidental to the cooking of food for human consumption;

(bb)

any activity involving the use of green offal or the boiling of blood except the cooking of food (other than tripe) for human consumption;

(cc)

the cooking of tripe for human consumption elsewhere than on premises on which it is to be consumed;

(iii)

the fleshing, cleaning and drying of pelts of fur-bearing mammals;

(iv)

any activity carried on in connection with the operation of a knackers yard, as defined in the Animal By-Products Order (Northern Ireland) 2002(1);

(v)

any activity for the manufacture of soap not falling within Part A of section 4.1;

(vi)

the storage of vegetable matter not falling within any other section of this Schedule;

(vii)

the cleaning of shellfish shells;

(viii)

the manufacture of starch;

(ix)

the processing of animal or vegetable matter at premises for feeding a recognised pack of hounds registered under the Animal By-Products Order (Northern Ireland) 2002;

(x)

the salting of hides or skins, unless related to any other activity listed in this Schedule;

(xi)

any activity for composting animal or vegetable matter or a combination of both, except where that activity is carried on for the purposes of cultivating mushrooms;

(xii)

any activity for cleaning, and any related activity for drying or dressing seeds, bulbs, corms or tubers;

(xiii)

the drying of grain or pulses;

(xiv)

any activity for the production of cotton yarn from raw cotton or for the conversion of cotton yarn into cloth;

(xv)

the drying of green crops;

“food” includes—

(i)

drink;

(ii)

articles and substances of no nutritional value which are used for human consumption; and

(iii)

articles and substances used as ingredients in the preparation of food;

“green crops” means alfalfa (Lucerne), clover, grass, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue and other similar crops;

“green offal” means the stomach and intestines of any animal, other than poultry or fish, and their contents;

“underground strata” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2) of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999(2);

“waterways” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2) of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999.

(1)

S.R. 2002 No. 209

(2)

S.I. 1999/662 (N.I. 6)