Treatment of hazardous waste

✓ Circular economy

1. The activities consist of the material recovery of secondary raw materials (including chemical substances and critical raw materials) from source segregated hazardous waste.2. The recovered materials are substituting primary raw materials, including critical raw materials, or chemicals in production processes(51).3. The recovered materials comply with the applicable industry specifications, harmonized standards, or end-of-waste criteria, as well as relevant applicable Union and national legislation.

✓ Pollution prevention

1. For all waste treatment processes, the activity complies with the following criteria:1.1. According to the type of activity, the activity complies with the requirements set out either in the best available techniques (BAT) conclusions for waste treatment(48) or the best available techniques (BAT) conclusions for waste incineration(49).Facilities that have been granted a derogation in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 15(4) of Directive 2010/75/EU are not considered as compliant with the Technical Screening Criteria.1.2. During the pre-acceptance procedures, at least the following information is gathered: expected date of arrival at the waste treatment plant; contact details of the waste producer, the sector which the waste originates from and the nature of process producing the waste, including the variability of the process;the estimated quantity expected to be delivered to the operator per delivery and per year;description of the waste, including composition, hazardous properties of the waste, waste code and the suitable treatment route. 1.3. During the acceptance procedures, the following elements are in place: a reception facility equipped with a laboratory to analyse samples on site and documented analytical standard operating procedures, with the option to sub-contract analyses to accredited external contract laboratories; documented sampling procedure consistent with relevant standards, such as EN 14899:2005(50);documented analysis of the relevant physico-chemical parameters for the treatment;a dedicated quarantine waste storage area, as well as written procedures to manage non-accepted waste.The personnel dealing with the pre-acceptance and acceptance procedures is able, due to their profession or experience, to deal with all necessary questions relevant for the treatment of the wastes in the waste treatment facility. The procedures are intended to pre-accepting and accepting wastes at the waste treatment plant only if a suitable treatment route is available and the disposal or recovery route for the output of the treatment is determined. For ‘blending or mixing activities’ (as set out in Annex I, section 5.1(c) of Directive 2010/75/EU), the operator is not using dilution to lower the concentration of one or more hazardous substances present in the waste, with the aim for the resulting waste mix to be declassified and become ‘non-hazardous waste’ and thus be subsequently treated in facilities non-dedicated to the treatment of hazardous waste. Dilution is not used as a ‘substitute’ to the adequate treatment of the waste.2. For the physico-chemical treatment of solid or pasty waste, any treatment for the purpose of treating waste prior to final disposal, such as in hazardous waste landfills, is designed to fullfil the following requirements:limit at 6% the Total Organic Carbon (TOC) maximum concentration in each single input waste to the landfill; limit at 1 000 mg/kg dry matter Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) content of the output waste after a leaching test with L/S = 10 l/kg based on EU Standard EN 12457-2:2002(51).3. For the physico-chemical treatment of waste with calorific value, measures are taken in order to avoid dilution and dispersion of hazardous substances, and to avoid any high loads released into the air due to inappropriate final treatment of waste with calorific value. Any treatment installation prior to final thermal treatments (incineration or co-incineration) is to be designed with the purpose of limiting the content of hazardous substances (and meet other related criteria) for each single input waste treated at the physico-chemical treatment installation, so that the acceptance levels at the entrance of the final thermal treatment installations are respected.4. For the treatment of aqueous liquid waste, the biological treatability of the waste water resulting from the treatment of the water-based liquid waste in a biological waste water treatment plant is judged based on the following criterion:Dissolved Organic Carbon DOC elimination of >70% in 7 days (>80% when adapted inoculum is used) in accordance with EN ISO 9888(52) (Zahn Wellens), or other commonly accepted, equivalent industry standards and methodologies used to assess bio-elimination and related performances.5. For the treatment of waste containing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP), all waste containing POP substances listed in Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 are controlled and traced as hazardous waste in accordance with Article 17 of Directive 2008/98/EC. Specific requirements of Articles 7(4), 17, 18 and 19 of Directive 2008/98/EC apply. In case of transboundary movement, requirements of Chapter I of the Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council(53) apply.The tracking system in place in the installations based on the best practices referred to above allows the monitoring of:the effective separation of each part of a product or waste such as waste equipment, containing or contaminated with POP above the levels defined in Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021;the effective destruction or irreversible transformation of the POP waste in compliance with Articles 7(2) – 7(4) and Annex V to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021.6. For the treatment of mercury-containing waste(54), all installations likely to treat waste consisting of, containing or contaminated with mercury or mercury compounds (as defined in Article 11 of the Minamata Convention), implementthe traceability system set out in Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2017/852 or a similar traceability system. Based on this tracking system, the installations treating mercury-containing waste monitor the effective safe fate of mercury and mercury compounds in appropriate final destination.7. For the (non-combustion) treatment of healthcare waste, the installation implements the best practices set out in the WHO handbook on safe management of wastes from health-care activities(55).A non-combustion healthcare waste installation has specific acceptance procedure, monitors and can prove that the following types of healthcare waste are not accepted for treatment:cytotoxic waste;pharmaceutical waste;chemical waste;radioactive waste.The technologies used are certified by an independent certification body.