The Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 No. 493

[F1 SCHEDULE 1 N.I.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 substituted (17.8.2015) by The Waste Management Licensing (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/301), regs. 1(1), 2(6)

4.   In Table 1— N.I.

• “civic amenity site” or “household recycling centre” means a place provided by virtue of Article 25(1)(b) of the 1997 Order;

• “closed landfill” means a landfill site which ceased to accept waste on or after 19th December 2003;

• “landfill site” means a waste disposal site for the deposit of waste onto or into land, including—

  (a)

  subject to sub-paragraph (b), any site which is used for more than a year for the temporary storage of waste; and

  (b)

  any internal waste disposal site, that is to say a site where a producer of waste is carrying out his own waste disposal at the place of production; but excluding—

  (i)

  any facility where waste is unloaded in order to allow its preparation for further transport for recovery, treatment or disposal elsewhere;

  (ii)

  any site where waste is stored as a general rule for a period of less than three years prior to recovery or treatment; and

  (iii)

  any site where waste is stored for a period of less than one year prior to disposal;

• “non-hazardous” waste means any waste which is not covered by the definition of hazardous waste;

• “single waste stream” in relation to a waste disposal site refers to a site where the producer of all of the waste disposed of at that site is also the holder of a waste management licence, a relevant authorisation under the Landfill Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 or a permit under the Pollution, Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013;

• “transfer station” means a facility where waste is unloaded in order to allow its preparation for further transport for treatment, keeping or disposal elsewhere; and

• “waste” is “inert waste” if—

  (a)

  it does not undergo any significant physical, chemical or biological transformations;

  (b)

  it does not dissolve, burn or otherwise physically or chemically react, biodegrade or adversely affect other matter with which it comes into contact in a way likely to give rise to environmental pollution or harm to human health; and

  (c)

  its total leachability and pollutant content and the ecotoxicity of its leachate are insignificant and, in particular, do not endanger the quality of any surface water or groundwater.]