The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) is consulting on the storage and treatment of healthcare waste. The consultation is linked to new guidance designed to help operators understand and meet their […]
Managing lateral flow device (LFD) testing waste: RPS C25 The Environment Agency have released RPS C25, to explain when you can accept LFD testing waste coded 18 01 04 and […]
Treating microbiological laboratory waste on the site where it is produced: RPS 233 Microbiological laboratories produce microbiology cultures and other microbiologically contaminated wastes. They are autoclaved on site to sterilise […]
At long last, the Environment Agency have issued revised guidance on the management of PPE from home healthcare workers treating patients with COVID-19 infection. Too little, too late is something […]
he Environment Agency has approved Veolia’s application to alter its environmental permit to allow the processing of healthcare orange bagged waste at its energy from waste plant at Tyseley, Birmingham. […]
Environment Agency RPS updates: The latest regulatory position statement updates from the Environment Agency. Monitoring emissions from some environmental permitting activities: RPS C7 Emissions to air from Large Combustion Plant in […]
Better late than never, the Environment Agency have issued guidance concerning healthcare waste management changes in relation to coronavirus. It all seems quite sensible, though predictably late to appear. T hough […]
The Environment Agency has released RPS C1 to explain its stance on the storing or treating COVID-19 cleansing waste at a healthcare waste management facility, explaining when you can store or […]
In typical Environment Agency style, their intention is now to demand that operators store all clinical wastes indoors. Though their summary documentation released just a couple of days ago was […]
Following the June/July 2019 Environment Agency questionnaire concerning measures for permitted facilities that take healthcare waste, measures that might be, and in some cases are entirely appropriate, and several that […]
Steps have been taken at a warehouse unlawfully filled with more than 400 tonnes of NHS clinical waste after the Environment Agency raised concerns over a potential “significant risk to […]
Clinical hospital waste –including body parts – has been left piled up in bags at a site for nearly a year. A woman who lives nearby claims her life has been […]
The papers are reporting today what the call the Eco-hypocrisy! of the Environment Agency. They run 3,356 diesel vehicles despite being tasked with fighting pollution and Environment Agency bosses have been […]
For those who need to know, the Environment Agency have released data for waste management in England 2017. Just 21 months late but at last this can be accessed at […]
A huge pile of commercial rubbish, thought to include hospital waste, has been fly-tipped in a country lane in Hampshire. The mound of mechanically-processed refuse appeared on a path off Greywell […]
Researchers have isolated pathogenic, drug-resistant bacteria from wastewater treatment facilities in the UK. Drug-resistant bacteria are increasingly a public health concern as they can lead to serious illness or death, […]
There are, no doubt, lots of different opinions regarding the current HES Ltd “scandal”. Before making your own decisions about this, read the documents presented by HES Ltd at https://www.healthcareenv.com/the-truth. […]
The war of words between the Environment Agency (EA) and contractor Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) has worsened after the company released a cache of emails and minutes of a meeting […]
NHS Improvement and Environment Agency officials have previously privately acknowledged problems with England’s incineration capacity Healthcare Environment Services says it will take legal action against trusts which cancelled contracts Company’s […]
Lord O’Shaughnessy (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health) delivered a written statement to the House yesterday, which has appeared in Hansard today. This statement is to update the House […]
Few can have missed the generally lurid headlines concerning a ‘mountain of clinical wastes and human body parts’ that seem to have appeared in all news websites, TV news and […]
2018 Revised spreadsheet ‘Waste management 2016 in England: data tables’. Amendment to ‘Operational incinerators’ worksheet. Permitted waste management activities provide information about wastes accepted and removed from their facilities. This […]
How the Environment Agency meets the Regulators’ Code Updated 2 November 2017. Let us hope that every one of the Agency’s staff adhere to this updated Code since, in previous years, the […]
The Environment Agency has updated its summary spreadsheets “Waste management for England, 2015“. The data include stats for clinical/healthcare wastes as well as other waste fractions, by type, region, fate etc. […]
Not entirely a particular need for us, though the definition of clinical waste fraction is getting particularly vague and unreliable since the Local Authorities have chosen to ignore the Environment […]
CQC identify two Caterham care homes ‘requiring improvement’. Oakwood, a home in Woodview Way for seven people with learning disabilities, epilepsy or sensory impairment, was judged not up to scratch […]
Released today, Statutory Rules concerning: Statutory guidance: SR2008 No25 75kte: clinical waste and healthcare waste treatment and transfer station Statutory guidance: SR2008 No24 75Kte: clinical waste and healthcare waste transfer […]
A Nottingham man pleaded guilty yesterday to two charges relating to the illegal operation of a regulated waste facility. On 21 October 2015, Mr Martin Salmon of Western Boulevard, Nottingham […]
Waste Classification Changes With the forthcoming changes to waste classification there will be a slight delay in the EU Regulation being fully implemented in England. New domestic Regulations are required, […]
WM3, the Environment Agency’s Waste Classification – Guidance on the classification and assessment of waste is upon us, handed down from on high as if on tablets of stone. WM2 had an […]