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SCHEDULE 1E+WActivities, installations and mobile plant

PART 2E+WActivities

CHAPTER 5E+WWaste management

SECTION 5.1E+WIncineration and co-incineration of waste

Part A(1)

(a)The incineration of hazardous waste in a waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant with a capacity exceeding 10 tonnes per day.

(b)The incineration of non-hazardous waste in a waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant with a capacity exceeding 3 tonnes per hour.

(c)The incineration, other than incidentally in the course of burning landfill gas or solid or liquid waste, of any gaseous compound containing halogens.

Part B

(a)The incineration in a small waste incineration plant with an aggregate capacity of 50kg or more per hour of the following waste—

(i)vegetable waste from agriculture or forestry;

(ii)vegetable waste from the food processing industry, if the heat generated is recovered;

(iii)fibrous vegetable waste from virgin pulp production and from production of paper from pulp, if it is co-incinerated at the place of production and the heat generated is recovered;

(iv)cork waste;

(v)wood waste with the exception of wood waste which may contain halogenated organic compounds or heavy metals as a result of treatment with wood preservatives or coatings;

(vi)animal carcasses.

(b)The cremation of human remains.

Application of Part B

1.  When determining the extent of an installation carrying on an activity within Part B, any location of the following description is to be ignored: any location where the associated storage or handling of wastes and residues which are to be incinerated as part of that activity is carried on, other than a location where the associated storage or handling of animal remains intended for burning in an incinerator used wholly or mainly for the incineration of such remains or residues from the burning of such remains in such an incinerator is carried on.E+W