Paragraph 10 Authorisation conditions: waste which may be accepted in different classes of landfillF1

(1)

SEPA must ensure that a permit for a landfill activity includes such conditions as it considers appropriate to ensure that the landfill is only used for the disposal of waste which has been subject to prior treatment unless—

(a)

it is inert waste for which treatment is not technically feasible,

(b)

it is waste other than inert waste, and treatment would not reduce its quantity or the hazards which it poses to the human health or the environment,

(c)

it is waste for which requiring prior treatment would not accord with the general aims in regulation 9 or the duty in paragraph 3 of schedule 11,

(2)

Where SEPA has classified a landfill as a landfill for hazardous waste under paragraph 7(2)(a), it must ensure that the permit for the landfill activity includes such conditions as it considers appropriate to ensure that only waste which fulfils the waste acceptance criteria in Part 3 of this schedule is accepted at the landfill.

(3)

Where SEPA has classified a landfill as a landfill for non-hazardous waste under paragraph 7(2)(b), SEPA must ensure that the permit for the landfill activity includes the conditions necessary to ensure that—

(a)

the landfill is only used for the disposal of—

(i)

municipal waste,

(ii)

non-hazardous waste of any other origin which fulfils the waste acceptance criteria in Part 3 of this schedule,

(iii)

stable, non-reactive hazardous waste (such as that which is solidified with leaching behaviour equivalent to that of non-hazardous waste referred to in sub-paragraph (ii)), and which fulfils the waste acceptance criteria in paragraph 19(a),

(b)

where hazardous waste of the type described at sub-paragraph (3)(a)(iii) is disposed of at a landfill for non-hazardous waste, it is not deposited in cells used or intended to be used for the disposal of biodegradable non-hazardous waste.

(4)

Where SEPA has classified a landfill as a landfill for inert waste under paragraph 7(2)(c), it must ensure that the permit for the landfill activity includes such conditions as it considers appropriate to ensure that the landfill is only used for the disposal of inert waste which meets the waste acceptance criteria in Part 3 of this schedule.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 13 inserted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 4 (with sch. 23)