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4th February 2015 – REA offices, 2nd floor, 25 Eccleston Place, Victoria, London, SW1W9NF

5th February 2015 – Eversheds Ltd, Bridgewater Place, Water Lane, Leeds, LS11 5DR 

The REA invite members to a workshop to discuss the consultation issued by the Environment Agency covering LANDSPREADING, DIGESTATE STORAGE and SOIL TRANSFER TREATMENT AND RECOVERY. We are holding 2 workshops and invite members to join us at your most convenient location, Leeds or London.  There is a small charge to attend which covers the cost of refreshments.

The purpose of this workshop is to enable the REA to listen to the views of members and discuss the consultation in detail and to help formulate our response to the consultation.

12:00 Arrival and networking lunch

13:00 Overview of consultation and discussion

14:30 Refreshments

14:45 Further discussion and summary of responses

16:00 Close

Cost: £45 for REA members, £90 for non-members.

London workshop – REA’s offices, a few minutes walk from Victoria Station, directions HERE

Leeds workshop – Evershed’s offices, a  short walk from Leeds Station, directions HERE. 

To book your place at this workshop, please contact Jenny Grant at jenny@r-e-a.net, places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

The Environment Agency are asking for your views on their proposal for new and revised rule sets and risk assessments as summarised below: 

1.            Standard rules allow a range of wastes to be used in construction and land reclamation activities. The EA have identified a risk to groundwater from some of these waste types in some locations. They are proposing the withdrawal of these existing standard rules and replacing them with a single set of rules which will be more restrictive as to the type of waste permissible and location at which they can be adopted. The changes they are proposing will better protect groundwater quality.

  

2. The EA are also are also proposing the revision of standard rules covering land spreading and digestate storage. The changes introduce restrictions affecting land spreading and storage activities which will give better environmental protection. There are also new provisions giving operators greater flexibility in the size of area and choice of acceptable wastes they can spread. They are further taking this opportunity to make minor changes to definitions and wording to improve clarity and consistency.

  

3. The EA are also proposing three major changes to 13 standard rules permits covering soils recycling activities. The changes are: 

i) Additional advisory text on the need to meet end of waste status for recovered materials

ii) The modification of waste acceptance procedures for soils from known or suspected contaminated sites

iii) The clarification of authorised treatment activities for mobile plant permits for the treatment of soils, materials and products to allow simple segregation and sorting activities as a standalone as well as associated recovery activity.

Further information on the Landspreading and Digestate storage can be found HERE  this includes the relevant information on Standard Rule and associated generic risk assessments

Further information on Soil transfer treatment and recovery can be found HERE 

Should you have any questions in the interim, please contact Jeremy