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The Environment Agency are visiting waste operators and focusing attention on sampling, testing and classification of waste entering and leaving the site. They expect site operators to have documentation available for inspection, including sampling and testing procedures and classification reports.

Only available on 18th August between 9:30 and 10:30

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Gain a full understanding of your Environmental Permit and your responsibility to implement Permit Conditions through an Environmental Management System (EMS).

By the end of the webinar, you will:

• Understand what your permit contains.
• Be clear on what your responsibilities are with regard to holding a permit for waste operations.
• Have a good understanding of the enforcement tools used by the regulators.
• Understand the potential consequences of not complying with your permit.
• Know what your EMS should contain.
• Understand how to effectively implement permit requirements through an EMS.

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It is requirement under waste duty of care that waste must be classified. Misclassifying or not classifying your waste can lead to fines, business closure and even prosecution.

In the first session of this webinar series, we cover the fundamentals of classification and the consequences of not classifying your waste correctly so that you can be clear on where your responsibilities are with waste classification.

This leads on to the two other sessions where we walk you through the classification process including all of the ingredients required to end up with a robust waste classification.

Having attended this webinar, you will:

• Have a good understanding of the waste classification process.
• Understand what actions need to be taken, in your role, to ensure that a robust classification can be made.
• Be able to look at a waste classification report and make an informed judgment of its value.
• Understand the potential consequences of not correctly classifying waste.

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We cover the fundamentals in the first session so that no matter how much knowledge you may or may not have to start, with we cover all the basic principles. This leads on to the other sessions covering treatment and deposit activities. We understand that your time is precious and you do not want to be sitting through sessions that do not relate to you. Therefore you can choose to attend one or both of these sessions.

Having attended these sessions you will have a clear understanding of:

• When is soil a waste and therefore under waste management regulation.
• The sampling, testing and classification of soil.
• How to comply with permits for the treatment of construction/demolition waste.
• How to authorise the deposit of waste soil in a development.
• How to use soil as a non-waste material (Cl:aire Code of Practice).

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