Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
If you store any kind of oil on your premises you may need to comply with regulations controlling how you store it. Storing your oil responsibly will reduce the risk of causing pollution and help you avoid prosecution or a fine.
You must store all liquid wastes, for example used cooking oils, and biofuels securely:
You may also need a waste management licence to store waste cooking oil. See the page in this guideline: Do you need a permit or licence to produce biofuel?
You must register an exemption from waste management licensing for certain activities including to produce or store biofuel. See the page in this guideline: Do you need a permit or licence to produce biofuel?
If you store large quantities of dangerous substances, for example materials used to make biofuels, check whether the COMAH Regulations affect you. COMAH may also affect your site if you store fuels, including gases like biomethane, over certain thresholds.
You may need a major accident prevention policy, have to submit a safety report and prepare an on-site emergency plan.
You should keep absorbent materials such as sand and other containment equipment suitable for the type and quantity of fuel and oil you store on your site. Keep them close to where you might need them and make sure that staff know where they are and how to use them. You can buy spill kits containing all the appropriate spill equipment for the materials you store.
Report pollution incidents as soon as they happen to the UK wide Pollution Hotline on Tel 0800 80 70 60.
Prepare a pollution incident response procedure for dealing with spills. Make sure that your staff are familiar with the procedure and know how to implement it.
GPP 21: Pollution incident response planning
If you transport dangerous goods, such as fuel, you must comply with legal requirements regulated by the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) or HSE in Scotland You must identify the hazards of the goods you intend to transport and meet further requirements for packaging, labelling and documentation.
HSENI: Carriage of dangerous goods
HSE: Carriage of dangerous goods
HSENI: Carriage of dangerous goods
HSE: Carriage of dangerous goods
GPP 2 Above ground oil storage tanks
GPP 21 Pollution incident response planning
Producing your own bioethanol or biogas
Do you need a permit or authorisation to produce biofuel?
Storing and transporting biofuel
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