Note A: “Absolute Entries” - Hazardous waste regardless of any threshold concentrations

Note M: “Mirror Entries”- Hazardous waste only if dangerous substances are present above M

Note b: To place waste in this category the Environment Agency give the following advice:

“Clinical judgement is required to determine if a healthcare waste should be considered infectious.
Definition of infectious- “substances containing viable micro-organisms or their toxins which are known or reliably believed to cause disease in man or other living organisms.”” -C9.2 WM2, The Environment Agency

hose entries with an asterisk (*) and without a specific or general reference to “dangerous substances”. Wastes covered under these entries are hazardous waste regardless of the concentration of any “dangerous substance” within the waste. “Absolute entries” and marked with an “A”.

“Mirror entries”: Those entries with an asterisk (*) and with a specific or general reference to “dangerous substances”, which are generally identified by the word “containing” in the description and have a corresponding entry without an asterisk (*).- Technical Guidance –WM2, The Environment Agency

From the 16th July 2005 any separate premises from which you expect to produce over 200 kgs annually of Hazardous Waste (as newly defined) needs to be notified in advance to the Environment Agency on payment of a fee. Premises where potentially-non-infectious wastes will not be able to be segregated from potentially-infectious wastes will need to consign their waste as Hazardous, and to include the full amount for the purposes of the 200kgs+ test. The Environment Agency will then issue a Premises code

Certain types of premises as listed below will be exempt from the requirement to notify premises if less than 200kg of hazardous waste are produced at these premises in any twelve-month period. (but this quantity limit does not apply to a ship).

There will be no limit on the number of consignments that can be made from the premises under this exemption as long as the total amount produced in any twelve-month period is less than 200kg. The exemption will only apply where the hazardous waste is removed from the premises either by a registered carrier or a carrier exempt from the requirement to be so registered. Premises that can benefit from this exemption are:

1. office premises, to the extent that the hazardous waste arises from the use of the premises as an office;
2. shop premises, to the extent that the hazardous waste arises from the use of the premises as a shop;
3. premises used for agriculture within the meaning of the Agriculture Act 1947, to the extent that the hazardous waste arises from the use of the premises for agriculture (note that the regulations do not apply to agricultural waste until 1st September 2006 – see 2.10);
4. premises of a description listed in—
   1. paragraphs (a) to (e) of section 75(5) of the 1990 Act; or
   2. Schedule 1 to the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992;
5. premises at which waste electrical and electronic equipment is collected, to the extent that the premises are used for that purpose;
6. premises used by a dental, veterinary or medical practice, to the extent that the premises are used for that purpose; and
7. any ship.

Any premises other than those listed above that produce hazardous waste will need to be notified to the Environment Agency, irrespective of the amount of hazardous waste they produce.

www.environment-agency.gov.uk

Please contact Cliniserve on 0845 389 3967 were will be happy to facilitate your notification.

From 16 July 2005 Cliniserve will need to know the Premises Code of any notified site from which we collect.