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Environmental Health: Environmental Protection: Waste Management
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- 1Making waste work (1995), and the Waste Strategy 2000 had 4 main points1. recycle or compost 17% household waste by 2004
2. reduction biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) 75% by 2010
3. reduce levels of industrial waste going to landfill by 85% of 1998 levels by 2005
4. to recover 40% of municipal waste by 2005, 45% by 2010 and 67% by 2015 - 2Waste definition (3 key points)1. Any substance that constitutes
scrap material or effluent or other
unwanted surplus substance arising
from the application of any process
2. Any substance or article which
requires to be disposed of as being broken, worn out, contaminated or otherwise spoiled
3. It can be divided into sub-areas
household, controlled, industrial,
commercial municipal and hazardous. - 3Waste Management Planning has 3 main objectives1. minimise the amount of waste produced,
2. make best use of remaining waste
3. and minimise pollution from waste. - 4"Sustainable Development: The UK Strategy, 1994" was produced after...The Earth Summit in Rio in 1992
- 5The Waste Management Hierarchy (5 tiers)
- 6Local Authorities and Environmental Health have 5 key joint duties• refuse collection,
• disposal sites, allocation planning & monitoring,
• hazardous & clinical waste
• monitoring of street cleaning & litter
• education - 7There are Nine Relevant Documents to Waste Management- Controlled Waste Regulations (1992)
- The Waste Incineration (England and Wales) Regulations 2002.
- DETR Report of Composting Development Group (1999).
- Hazardous Waste Directive 91/689/EEC
- EU Landfill Directive 2002
- Landfill Regulations 2002
- EU Waste Incineration Directive 2000/76/EC
- Making waste work: A strategy for sustainable waste management in
England and Wales (1995), and - Waste Strategy 2000, reinforced by (S)EPA in 2000
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