Regulation 11D Conditions of waste management licences: separately collected food wasteF1

The Department shall ensure that any waste management licence granted or varied on or after 1st April 2015 authorising the storage or treatment (or both) of food waste contains such conditions as it considers necessary to ensure that no waste collected and transported in accordance with Article 5(2E) of the 1997 Order is mixed with any other waste or any material, to the extent that mixing would hamper future recycling.

Any waste management licence granted before 1st April 2015 authorising the storage or treatment (or both) of food waste and which continues in existence after that date shall be deemed to contain a condition requiring the operator to ensure that food waste collected and transported in accordance with Article 5(2E) of the 1997 Order is not mixed with any other waste or any material, to the extent that mixing would hamper future recycling.