Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
SEPA: Special waste guidance (Scotland)
All businesses that produce waste have a duty of care to make sure that it is handled and stored safely. If the waste is hazardous/special, extra controls apply.
You do not need a waste management licence or pollution prevention and control permit if you store hazardous/special waste on the site where it was produced for up to 12 months while you wait for it to be collected. The maximum amount of hazardous/special waste you can store is:
If you cannot meet these conditions - for example if you store hazardous/special waste for longer than 12 months - you must have a waste management licence or a pollution prevention and control permit.
Environmental permits and licences – an overview
If you keep hazardous/special waste on your premises, even for a short period of time, you must:
You must assess risks posed by any hazardous substances that you store on your site, including hazardous/special waste, and take steps to control those risks.
Make sure your staff are properly trained to deal with spills of the hazardous materials that you store on your premises. This should include instructions on what to do if there is a spill, the type of personal protection equipment required and how to correctly dispose of contaminated clean-up materials. See Pollution Prevention Guideline 21 (PPG 21).
GPP 21: Pollution incident response planning
NIEA: Hazardous waste guidance (Northern Ireland)
SEPA: Special waste guidance (Scotland)
Environmental permits and licences – an overview
What is hazardous/special waste?
Producing and storing hazardous/special waste
Moving and transferring hazardous/special waste
Treating and disposing of hazardous/special waste
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