Amendment of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013
3.—(1) The Pollution Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation: general), in the appropriate alphabetical order insert—
““controlled waste” has the same meaning as in the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;
“food waste” means controlled waste that was at any time food intended for human consumption (even if of no nutritional value), and includes biodegradable waste produced as a consequence of the processing or preparation of food, but does not include drink;
“separately collected food waste” means food waste which is presented for collection, and collected in a manner that ensures that food waste is kept separate from other waste;”.
(3) In regulation 13 (Conditions of permits: specific conditions for Part A installations and Part A mobile plant), after paragraph (10) insert—
“(11) A permit granted or varied on or after 1st April 2015 for an activity described in Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 1, or in Section 6.8 of Chapter 6 of that Part, shall contain any conditions as appear to the chief inspector to be appropriate to ensure that no separately collected food waste is mixed with any other waste or any material, to the extent that mixing would hamper future recycling.
(12) A permit granted or varied before 1st April 2015 for an activity described in Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 1, or in Section 6.8 of Chapter 6 of that Part, and which continues in existence after that date, shall be deemed to contain the condition that no separately collected food waste is mixed with any other waste or any material, to the extent that mixing would hamper future recycling.”.
S.R. 2013 No.160 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations