The regime for the collection and safe disposal of waste under the Control of Pollution Act 1974 has been significantly reformed by the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the accompanying regulations, introduced as a result of the UK's obligations under European Community Directives. These changes include the separation, within local authorities, of collection and regulatory functions; the imposition of a new duty of care on those who produce, import, store, treat, transport, recycle or dispose of controlled waste; the monitoring of closed landfill sites and remedy gas contamination; new provisions as to the furnishing of information for public registers; and increased powers of discrimination in the award of waste management licences - the introduction of the concept "fit and proper person". This is a practical guide to the mechanisms for the control of waste management.
It provides an overview of waste management law in the European Community and the UK, and then proceeds to examine the individual areas of control: controlled and non-controlled waste; the duty of care; rubbish clearance; waste collection; waste recycling; special waste and the trans-boundary shipment of waste; licenses for waste facilities; closure and planning conditions on the aftercare of sites; and civil liability for waste management operations. The book explains the roles of the individual producer, the waste regulation, collection and disposal authorities and that of the Secretary of State. It directs the reader to those parts of the regime which are currently in force and details the implications of the new waste disposal licensing system expected by mid-1993.
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 138 mm
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978-0-421-43010-5 (9780421430105)
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Community waste management law; waste control in the United Kingdom; controlled waste; non-controlled wastes or materials; the duty of care; litter; rubbish clearance; waste collection; carriers of waste; waste recycling; special wastes; transboundary shipments of waste; waste plans; waste disposal by local authorities; unauthorised handling of controlled waste; planning permission for waste management facilities; licences for waste management; supervision of waste disposal facilities; closure and aftercare facilities; incineration of waste; disposal at sea; civil liability for waste management operations.