I am currently looking at a site where there may be a necessity to take residual sewage/gully/storm water waste from tankers/skips and unload into a hopper which allows the media to be seperated into solids & water. This is then taken to landfill or liquids back to sewage treament plants...is it classed as waste transfer or is it a bespoke licence issue? The residual waste is what is left on board after dewatering/blowing off at licenced sites. The company operates with a waste carriers licence. Your thoughts, experiences are gratefully received. Bob Wright

You will still have a waste transfer with the receiving site even if using your own vehicles. Unless the tankers or skips are your own then the initial collection is also a transfer. As you are handling sewage and other decomposing materials potentially there may be a license required for waaste treatment at your location

Bob

As far as the actual operation of separation on the site goes you need to read the relevant sections of the Environment Agency's website on permitting and decide if your process falls into any of the definitions covered by an exemption. They are very specific and you need to apply your precise circumstances to each definition that you think might fit. If one of these fits then you apply to the Agency for an exempltion from Waste Permitting (what use to be called Waste Licensing). The scope is very wide. How many people have actually applied for an exemption to operate that cardboard baler they have in their back yard? (oh yes it is... http://www.environment-a...s/permitting/116183.aspx )

The Exemptions are listed here http://www.environment-a...cs/permitting/32322.aspx

If you cannot fit your specific process into one of these definitions then you probably need an Environmental Permit - start here http://www.environment-a...ness/sectors/116786.aspx

I have found the Agency very helpful. If you can't find your way through this maze then call them and ask!