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SEPA
publish consultation on Food Waste Management and Review of SEPAâÂÂs regulatory position on the use
of compost and anaerobic digestate without waste management regulatory controls.
This consultation is now closed.
SEPA is seeking
responses to a consultation on proposed new guidance which sets out obligations
along the chain of food waste management in order to achieve high quality
recycling. This chain of management includes the waste producer, collection
service provider, food waste treatment
facility and final user of
the food waste derived compost and / or anaerobic digestate.
Only food waste
managed in accordance with the Guidance will fulfil the duty to segregate food
waste, demonstrate compliance with duty of care as regards quality
requirements and fulfil proposed waste acceptance criteria at food waste
treatment facilities regulated by SEPA in Scotland. They intend to include
standard permit conditions in all food waste treatment facility permits under a
SEPA initiated variation to support the guidance.
They are also seeking
feedback on SEPAâÂÂs revised regulatory positions for the Regulation of Outputs
from Composting and Anaerobic Digestion Processes. These revisions set
out limits (by weight) of physical contaminants (including
plastic) to 50% of those specified in PAS 100 and 8% of those specified in
PAS110 standards (for compost and anaerobic digestate respectively).
This will align SEPA
physical contamination limits with Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) standards.
SEPA appreciate that
achieving these limits may be challenging for some operators and are
proposing a phased implementation presented below.
Table: Proposed phased
implementation of physical contaminant (including plastic) limits
|
|
Compost |
Digestate |
|
1st April
2017 |
66% of PAS 100
levels |
50% of PAS110 |
|
1st April
2018 |
50% of PAS 100
levels |
25% of PAS110 |
|
1st April
2019 |
n/a |
8% of PAS110 |
Compost or digestate
which exceeds these revised limits for physical contaminants will be regulated
as a waste and SEPAâÂÂs presumption will be that such material is not be suitable
for application to agricultural land under an exemption from waste
management licensing.
Consultation in full can be found HERE
The consultation runs until 29th June and ORG will be responding on behalf of our members, please forward comments to Jenny Grant (jenny@r-e-a.net) by 22nd June for inclusion in our response.
ORG submitted a response to this consultation, please find it here. Thanks to all members who provided comments.
Published: 23/05/2016. Updated: 04/07/16
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