This reduces the risk of cross contamination and pollution. You should clean and treat metals that are contaminated with hazardous/special waste such as grease, engine oil, coolant or similar chemicals before you store them. You must keep hazardous/special waste separate from all other materials. You must treat hazardous/special waste metals in designated, signed, bunded treatment areas. You will need to treat some metals as hazardous/special waste, for example metal in waste oil filters, spent battery casings or mercury in fluorescent tubes. Your business may need to comply with packaging regulations. Scotland environmental management toolkit Northern Ireland environmental management toolkit If your business is in Northern Ireland or Scotland you can use the toolkit designed for each country to help you structure a management plan to control your business' environmental impacts.įor further information, see our management toolkits. If you store, handle, transport, treat, recover, reuse or recycle waste plastics, you must hold a waste management licence or an exemption and you must meet your requirements under the duty of care. Some metal recycling sites may require a pollution prevention and control permit for < example if you recycle scrap metal cables by removing plastic or rubber using heat.ĭoes your recycling and reprocessing business need a permit, licence or exemption? What you must do Authorisations to operate If the contents are classified as hazardous, then you must treat the entire container as hazardous/special waste. Read the label on the container or the relevant Safety Data Sheet to help you do this. If your business discharges trade effluent to a public sewer, you must have a valid trade effluent consent from your water and sewerage company.īefore you reuse, recover, recycle or dispose of waste meta containers, you must check whether their contents are classified as hazardous/special waste. You must comply with the conditions of your authorisation
In Scotland, if you discharge anything to the water environment you may require an authorisation from SEPA - See SEPA: Water - Controlled Activities Regulations (CAR). You must comply with any conditions in your authorisation. You must have an authorisation, such as a licence, permit or consent, from your environmental regulator before you discharge any sewage, effluent or contaminated run-off to the water environment.
Waste electrical and electronic equipment You must follow certain regulations for recycling some specific metals.īattery recycling for recycling businesses Recycling businesses collect and store metals, and transport them to foundries where they are melted and cast for use in new products. Scrap metals include ferrous and non-ferrous metals from a range of sources including food and drinks packaging, construction waste, end-of-life vehicles and waste electrical appliances. As a result, our recycling ratio now stands at 94%.Return to the Waste treatment processes environmental topic On our path to becoming a zero-waste (for landfill) company, we report that we currently send just 6% of our by-products to the landfill, with the remainder being reused, recycled or stored for future recycling.
As of 2020, less than 7% of our total waste was classified as hazardous. That’s why our engineers and R&D team are working on innovative new solutions to neutralize such hazardous waste. However, some by-products, such as acids and specific treatment mud, still need a viable technical solution. Re-using the furnace of a former melt shop, we treat these residues and extract the valuable metallic content to send it back for reuse. One of our responses to this challenge is Recyco, our European recycling unit dedicated to recovering and treating the metallic content from melting shop dust and sludge. As we aim to become a zero-waste to landfill company, we need to find solutions for all our residues. But because all our activities generate waste, we also have a responsibility to address the waste and by-products produced by our units and manufacturing processes.
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