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The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010

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SECTION 5.4Recovery of Waste
  • Part A(1)

    (a)

    Recovering by distillation of any oil or organic solvent.

    (b)

    Cleaning or regenerating carbon, charcoal or ion exchange resins by removing matter which is, or includes, any substance listed in paragraphs 6 to 8 of Part 1 of this Schedule.

    (c)

    Unless carried on as part of any other Part A activity, recovering hazardous waste in a plant with a capacity of more than 10 tonnes per day by means of the following operations—

    (i)

    the use principally as a fuel or other means to generate energy (R1),

    (ii)

    solvent reclamation/regeneration (R2),

    (iii)

    recycling/reclamation of inorganic materials other than metals and metal compounds (R5),

    (iv)

    regeneration of acids or bases (R6),

    (v)

    recovering components used for pollution abatement (R7),

    (vi)

    recovery of components from catalysts (R8),

    (vii)

    oil re-refining or other reuses of oil (R9).

Interpretation and application of Part A(1)

1.  Part A(1)(a) and (b) do not apply to any of the following activities, except where the activity involves distilling more than 100 tonnes per day—

(a)distilling oil for the production or cleaning of vacuum pump oil;

(b)an activity which is ancillary to and related to another activity, whether described in this Schedule or not, which involves the production or use of the substance which is recovered, cleaned or regenerated.

2.  Part A(1) does not apply to the treatment, by means of mobile plant, of—

(a)waste soil; or

(b)contaminated material, substances or products, for the purpose of remedial action with respect to land or controlled waters.

3.  The reference to an R paragraph number in brackets at the end of Part A(1)(c)(i) to (vii) is a reference to the number of the corresponding paragraph in Annex IIB to the Waste Framework Directive (recovery operations).

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