Does your waste or sewage 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.
Waste or sewage industrial activities
These are industrial or waste activities that have an impact on the environment and are listed in the EASR regulations.
These activities include:
- landfill receiving more than 10 tonnes of waste per day or a total capacity more than 25,000 tonnes
- disposal of non-hazardous waste more than 50 tonnes per day
- recovery, or a mix of recovery and disposal, of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 75 tonnes per day and excluding activities covered by the Urban Waste-water Treatment Directive
- disposal or recovery of hazardous waste more than 10 tonnes per day
- temporary storage of hazardous waste with a total capacity exceeding 50 tonnes
- underground storage of hazardous waste with a total capacity exceeding 50 tonnes
- non-Industrial Emissions Directive waste management activity that does not fit into any other specified activity
- independently operated wastewater treatment plants#
- Cremating human remains
Note: Activities relating to the incineration of waste are considered a waste activity under EASR and may require an EASR waste activity permit. These activities include the:
- incineration of biomass waste in an incineration or co-incineration plant, with a capacity of more than 3 tonnes per hour
- incineration of animal carcasses in an incineration or co-incineration plant, with a capacity of more than 50 kilograms per hour
- small-scale disposal or recovery of waste in an incineration plant or co-incineration plant
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.