Waste incineration directive
The Waste Incineration Directive (WID) was agreed by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on 4 December 2000. The aim of the Directive is to prevent or limit, as far as practicable, negative effects on the environment, in particular pollution by emissions into air, soil, surface and groundwater, and the resulting risks to human health, from the incineration and co-incineration of waste.
The Directive seeks to achieve this high level of environmental and human health protection by requiring the setting and maintaining of stringent operational conditions, technical requirements and emission limit values for plants incinerating and co-incinerating waste throughout the European Community.
The Directive was applied to all new waste and incineration and co-incineration plants from 2002. However from January 2006 it also applies to all existing incineration plants. The widespread implementation of this Directive from January 2006 has a direct implication for producers of waste oil. Currently much of the UK’s waste oil is collected and burned as fuel however the tightened emission standards will limit the number of facilities able to burn current waste oil products.
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