The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

Treatment of waste food (T13)
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13.—(1) The treatment of waste food that is relevant waste by decanting or unwrapping it, bulking it up and sorting it.

(2) The table specifying relevant waste for the purposes of this paragraph is set out below.

CodesWaste types
020304, 020501, 020601, 020704Materials unsuitable for consumption or processing
200199Non liquid foods unsuitable for consumption or processing only

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, the specific conditions are that—

(a)the total quantity of waste treated or stored at any one time does not exceed 30 tonnes,

(b)the treatment and storage are carried on—

(i)indoors;

(ii)in a secure place,

(c)no waste is stored for longer than 7 days,

(d)in relation to relevant waste specified in the first row of the table in sub-paragraph (2), where that is milk only, the operation is carried on in a dairy which has sealed drainage, and

(e)any resultant waste packaging is bulked up for the purposes of recovery.