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The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007

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Composting waste

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12.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), composting biodegradable waste at the place where the waste is produced or where the compost is to be used, or at any other place occupied by the person producing the waste or using the compost, if the total quantity of waste being composted at that place at any time does not exceed—

(a)in the case of waste composted or to be composted for the purposes of cultivating mushrooms, 10,000 cubic metres; and

(b)in any other case, 1,000 cubic metres.

(2) An operation does not fall within sub-paragraph (1) if it falls within paragraph (a) of Part B of Section 6.8 of Part 2 of Schedule 1.

(3) Storing biodegradable waste which is to be composted if that storage is at the place where the waste is produced or is to be composted.

(4) In this paragraph, “composting” includes any biological transformation process that results in materials which may be spread on land for the benefit of agriculture or ecological improvement.

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