Waste activities and waste mobile plant for recycling and reprocessing
This guidance is for waste activities and waste mobile plant at your 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 PPC permits.
PPC permits for recycling and reprocessing businesses
If your waste disposal or recovery activities are not listed activities then they may be a waste management activity.
Waste management activities include:
- waste transfer stations, eg collection and bulking sites, and civic amenity sites
- waste treatment plants, eg composting and anaerobic digestion
- scrap metal sites.
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.
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
NIEA: Waste management licensing
SEPA: Waste management licensing