Does your rubber and plastic business require an EASR IA permit?
Your business may require an EASR Industrial Activity (IA) permit from SEPA. For example, you will need a permit if your business has a production capacity above a certain level or if you use certain hazardous substances.
If your business is an installation, you will need an EASR IA permit from SEPA.
An installation is a stationary technical unit, such as a self-contained building, permanent structure or fixed plant, used for activities listed in the regulations.
Rubber and plastic industrial activities
These are industrial activities that have an impact on the environment and are listed in the EASR regulations.
These activities include:
- flame bonding or cutting with heated wires of polyurethane foams or polyurethane elastomers
- use of di-isocyanates
- polymerisation using unsaturated hydrocarbons or Schedule 21 products
- any activity which may result in the release into the air of any acid forming oxide of nitrogen
- rubber conversion above 15 tonnes per year
- manufacturing new tyres, other than remoulds or re-treads, involving the use in any 12-month period of 50,000 tonnes or more of one or more of natural rubber, or a synthetic organic elastomer, or any substance mixed with rubber or such an elastomer
- mixing, milling or blending of natural rubber, or a synthetic organic elastomer, in which carbon black is used and/or any related activity that converts the resulting product into a finished product
What you must do
If your installation carries out listed activities, you will need a permit from SEPA and you will need to comply with the conditions of the permit.
Contact your environmental regulator
If you are unsure whether you are affected by EASR Industrial Activity permits, contact SEPA.