Waste Framework Directive |
- System for the coordinated management of waste with the community
- Defines waste and introduces principles of waste hierarchy, principle and self sufficiency
- Foundation for sustainable waste management
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Landfill Directive |
- Prevent or reduce negative effects on the environment from landfill
- Introduction for stringent technical requirements for waste and landfills
- Pre treatment (2004 hazardous waste, 2007 all other waste)
- Targets for the reduction of bio gradable material
- Ban of specific wastes (2003 whole tyres, 2006 shredded tyres, 2002 liquid hazardous waste, plus other hazardous wastes
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Hazardous Waste Directive |
- Licensing requirements for handling and treatment of hazardous waste
- Singles out specific waste materials for their hazardous nature and potential impact upon health and the environment
- 1st Jan 2002 single list of hazardous waste established
- Extended range of hazardous waste materials listed beyond scope of UK special waste regulations
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Incineration of Waste |
- Extended to cover co-incineration plants
- Sets stricter limit values and technical requirements
- New plants required to comply 2002, existing by Dec 2005
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Packaging and Packing Waste |
- Producer responsibility legislation
- Lays down essential requirements as to the composition, reuse recovery and recycling of all packaging
- New increased recovery and recycling targets
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End of life Vehicles |
- Waste prevention priority
- Reduce the use of hazardous substances in vehicle design
- Ease of dismantling, reuse, recovery and recycling of end of life vehicles
- Increase use of recycled materials in manufacture
- Sets targets and deadlines
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Batteries and Accumulators Directive |
- Currently under revision die to its scope
- New proposals for the collection and recycling targets and ban on batteries containing mercury, plus phase out cadmium by 2008
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Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive |
- Transition period until October 2007
- Permit system to prevent and control pollution arising
- 2003 commission reviewed compliance and found it to be insufficient
- Revision could change thresholds that determines which installations require IPPC, or inclusion of additional activities on the permitted list of installations
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Sewage Sludge Directive |
- Revision intends to broaden scope to wider range of sludge and wider range of receiving land types
- Result in a diversion in other treatment / disposal options
- Require the development of more advanced technologies in the long term
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Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) |
- Producer responsibility legislation
- Prevent generation and promote reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery
- Restricting the use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment
- Minimises the disposal of WEEE as unsorted MSW and setup collection system
- Targets and deadlines set in place from 2005 in terms of collection systems and 2006 for rates of separation, recovery and recycling. (This has now been put back to the start of 2006 and later)
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ROHS Directive |
- Restrictions posed on new electrical and electronic equipment in terms of banning specified hazardous components
- Target date of 1st July 2006 for new electrical equipment
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Proposed Bio Waste Directive |
- Aims to provide a strategic approach to the management of bio waste
- Influence the acceptability of management practices of biodegradable wastes by imposing controls on facility operation and end uses
- To cover MSW and biodegradable waste from a wide range of processing industries
- Possible that separate collections be enforced to maximise the scope for composting and anaerobic digestion
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Proposed Management of Waste from Extraction Industries Directive |
- Applies to waste resulting from extraction, processing and storage of mineral resources and the working of quarries
- Provisions are directed at the management of waste facilities
- Minimum supplementary standards are laid down with a proposal that BAT be used
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Proposed Framework for the Setting of Eco-Design Requirements for Energy Using Products Directive |
- Looks to set requirements for environmental relevant product characteristics on a life cycle basis
- Focuses on traded goods not covered by other policy or legislation
- Work in synergy with other EU legislation
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