Classification of hazardous waste

HazWasteOnline ^tm is a web-based tool for classifying hazardous waste. The software follows the latest Environment Agency guidance and European regulations and lets the user focus on what is in the waste and not how to do the calculations or keep up with the changing data.

HazWasteOnline ^tm provides waste producers, consultants, carriers and waste receivers with a simple, accurate and auditable tool for the classification of potentially hazardous and hazardous waste materials such as contaminated soils, filter cakes, sludge residues and wastes from organic processes.

Click here to download an example of a classification report for a contaminated soil.

Click here to check out the main features.

Introduction

Although the waste producer has the legal responsibility to classify any waste they produce, most classifications in the UK are done by the waste receivers.

• Incorrect classification can drastically increase disposal/transportion costs,
• It can potentially breach legislation, and
• Having a transparent and defensible audit trail reduces a company's risks.

While the cost for non-hazardous waste disposal is around £70/tonne, including Landfill Tax, the cost for hazardous waste disposal can be several hundred of pounds/tonne higher. This isn't due to the charge for the waste disposal itself but more to the fact that there are only a few hazardous landfills left in the UK and therefore transportation costs become very significant.

HazWasteOnline^tm contains all 20 EWC chapters and all 4000 plus substances from Table 3.2 of Annex VI of Regulation 1272/2008 on the Classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP). The Professional Edition lets the user define other waste stream and substance lists such as ones for a filter cake, a sludge or site X. It lets you analyse tens or hundreds of samples at a time and includes a function to cut-n-paste data from laboratory spreadsheets.

Hazardous Waste Classification tool

HazWasteOnline^tm is an on-line web tool that allows subscribers to:

• Utilise a default waste stream template suitable for contaminated soils
• Create customised waste stream templates with different substances, default species and EWC chapter
• Add their own substances
• Utilise either the SWAN/04 (Scottish) or HWR08 guidelines for oil contaminated waste
• Use the cut-n-paste function to quickly transfer laboratory results from spreadsheets
• Classify one, ten or hundreds of samples at a time
• Re-run the classification based on new information or assumptions
• See which substances are causing the hazardous classification
• Ignore a hazard property or substance (but document why)
• Detailed PDF classification reports

Training Courses: Classification of Waste

These one day courses cover the waste regulations, agency guidance, waste classification using the chemical analysis of the waste including practical exercises and the use of HazWasteOnline ^tm. The course provides information on the changes to WM2, ATP-2, the new H13 hazard property and the classification of oily wastes in England and Scotland. It also discusses where WAC, sampling methodology and the CL:AIRE code of practice fit into waste classification. Attendees include waste producers, waste receivers, consultants and environment agency staff.

The next dates are:

21st June 2012       FULL
Venue: Bourne End, Buckinghamshire

22nd June 2012       Extra date added
Venue: Bourne End, Buckinghamshire

Click here for the course details and an application form.

NEWS

1st May 2012 - Package Viewer - Beta

The Beta version of the new Package Viewer has been released for testing. The Package Viewer tool allows users to invite third parties (who don't have to be subscribers) to view and comment on (via a new messaging feature) their classification package. The objective of the tool is to:

• allow users to easily share classifications with other parties, such as a waste receiver, treatment company, broker or haulier
• remove the need for the party(s) to have to re-enter the same data
• get rid of emails with large attachments
• increase efficiency, auditability and quality across the industry

A typical classification package contains the laboratory analysis data, the classification and all the supporting documentation necessary to support the classification.

If you would like to use the Beta version before the full release later this month, please let us know.

26 October 2011 - SWAN/04 added

A new classification engine has been added that follows SEPA's SWAN/04 guidelines for the classification of oil contaminated wastes. Users can also utilise a wizard to make it easy to add "Total Oil Content (SWAN/04)" and the four markers (Benzo[a]pyrene, 1,3-butadiene, Benzene, DMSO extraction test) to waste stream templates.

10 May 2011 - New classification engine released to manage the recently published WM2 v2.3 and ATP2

This upgrade to the classification engine encompasses the recent revisions to WM2 and the ATP 2:

• New H13: Sensitivity (R42, R43)
• Inclusion of substance specific thresholds for H13
• The old H13 becoming the new H15 (Wastes capable of yielding another substance...)
• Other smaller changes that mainly impact labelling
• All new classifications will default to the new WM2 v2.3 engine
• ATP 2 removes Note H from the CLP. Binding dates are 1 December 2012 for substances and 1 June 2015 for mixtures.

HazWasteOnline^tm allows users to code and classify waste as defined in the EWC (European Waste Catalogue 2002) based on EC Regulation 1272/2008 on the Classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP) and latest Environment Agency guidance (WM2 v2.3). The system comprises an analysis and reporting web front-end, a calculation engine to model the regulations and a database to save the contaminants inputted and reports generated. The system is fully auditable and is maintained by us to reflect the latest changes in EC regulations and Environment Agency guidance.

HazWasteOnline^tm communicates seamlessly with other eFacility^® modules. Learn more