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RECORDKEEPING > Details
This section of the EVC provides detailed requirements for
Duty of Care and Waste Transfer Notes (WTNs).
Duty of Care / WTNs
- A Waste Transfer Note (WTN) is a document which must be completed
and accompany any transfer of waste between different holders.
- A WTN must be created for each load of waste that leaves your
site.
- The WTN must contain enough information about the waste to enable
anyone coming into contact with it to handle it safely and either
dispose of it or allow it to be recovered within the law. Failure
to give enough information may result in prosecution.
- You should describe on the WTN both in words and by reference
to the appropriate codes in the European Waste Catalogue (EWC)
and the quantity and types of each different waste being transferred.
The requirement was introduced in England, Wales and Scotland
by the respective Landfill Regulations.
- The WTN should also include details of how the waste is contained
i.e. loose or packaged and, if packaged, then in what type of
containers.
- Both parties to the transfer must sign the transfer note e.g.
you and the waste carrier must sign the WTN before the waste leaves
your site.
- You must keep copies of all WTN’s for at least two years.
- The transfer documentation for Hazardous Waste is referred to
as a ‘consignment note.’ If the material you are handling
has hazardous properties, it may need to be dealt with as Hazardous
Waste. In this case, completion of a Consignment Note (requiring
similar information to a WTN) will fulfil the Duty of Care requirements;
a separate waste transfer note is then not required.
- Be aware that waste defined by the EWC as hazardous (i.e. those
where the description matches an entry with an asterisk) can only
go to a waste treatment facility that is licensed to receive hazardous
waste.
- Ensure that wastes that arise irregularly (e.g. redundant materials,
wastes arising from cleaning up spills) are declared on WTNs.
Note that some of these wastes may have to be handled as hazardous
waste.
For further details:
The
Duty of Care
Environment
Agency - Waste Transfer Notes
An auditable trail of how your institiution disposes of all its
wastes, especially those deemed hazardous or special, if even more
important since the implementation of the European Landfill Directive.
European Landfill Directive/ Landfill (England and Wales)
Regulations 2002
The EU Landfill Directive and its UK implmentation has many implications
for differing types of waste that are disposed of to landfill. From
July 16th 2004, hazardous waste can no longer be diluted (co-disposed)
with non-hazardous waste for disposal in landfills. It must go to
landfills licensed for hazardous waste only, under the terms of
the Landfill Directive.
For further details:
DEFRA
- Landfill (England and Wales) Regulations 2002
Environment
Agency - Landfill Directives
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