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The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997
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- art. 58(1A) inserted by 2011 c. 5 (N.I.) s. 8(3)
- art. 70(2A)-(2C) inserted by 2011 c. 5 (N.I.) s. 9
[F1General policies in relation to waste and litterN.I.
6. The waste management plan must include such matters as the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs considers appropriate, taking into account the geographical level and geographical area to which the waste management plan relates and including at least the following–
(a)the type, quantity and source of waste generated within Northern Ireland;
(b)the waste likely to be shipped from or to Northern Ireland;
(c)an evaluation of the development of waste streams in the future;
(d)existing major disposal and recovery installations, including any special arrangements for waste containing significant amounts of critical raw materials, [F2waste oils or hazardous waste] ;
(e)an assessment of the need for closure of existing waste installations, and for additional waste installation infrastructure in accordance with the objective in paragraph 4;
(f)an assessment of the investments and other financial means required, including for district councils, to meet the needs identified following the assessment in sub-paragraph (e);
(g)an assessment of existing waste collection schemes, including the material and territorial coverage of separate collection and measures to improve their operation, of any exceptions to the requirement for waste to be subject to separate collection and of the need for new collection schemes;
(h)sufficient information on the location criteria for site identification and on the capacity of future disposal or major recovery installations, if necessary;
(i)general waste management policies, including planned waste management technologies and methods, or policies for waste posing specific management problems;
(j)measures to combat and prevent all forms of littering and to clean up litter; and
(k)appropriate qualitative or quantitative indicators and targets, including on the quantity of generated waste and its treatment and on municipal waste that is disposed of or subject to energy recovery.]
F1Sch. 3 substituted (18.12.2020) by The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/285), regs. 1(1), 2(7)
F2Words in Sch. 3 para. 6(d) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/584), regs. 1, 14(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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