Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
This guidance is for waste activities and waste mobile plant at your fabricated metal site.
Waste activities
If you carry out waste disposal or recovery activities you should check whether your activity is a listed activity.
Listed activities are explained in our guidance on installations and mobile plant.
If your waste disposal or recovery activities are not listed activities then they may be a waste management activity. Waste management activities include:
- treating, storing or disposing of scrap metal
- recovering or recycling scrap metal
- storing or disposing of swarf.
If you are unsure whether your activity is classed as a waste management activity, you should check with your environmental regulator.
Contact your environmental regulator
What you must do
If you carry out waste management activities you must have a waste management licence from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) or SEPA in Scotland.
How to apply for a permit or licence
Further information on waste activities
NIEA: Waste management licensing
SEPA: Waste management licensing
Waste mobile plant
Waste mobile plants are used for waste management activities in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Contact your environmental regulator to check whether your business uses waste mobile plant.
Contact your environmental regulator
What you must do
If you operate a waste mobile plant, you must have a waste management licence from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency or SEPA in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Contact your environmental regulator
How to apply for a permit or licence
Further information on waste mobile plant
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