1. 7517 Principles of
Sustainable
Resource
Management
Unit 206 Understand
Environmental Protection in the
Waste and Recycling Industry

2. Learning outcomes
 There are three
learning outcomes to this unit. The
learner will:
 1. Understand potential hazards to the environment
when working in the waste & recycling industry
 2. Understand how to reduce environmental impact
from waste and waste materials
 3. Understand the impact of waste materials on the
environment

3. Understand potential hazards to
the environment when working in
the waste & recycling industry
 Hazards that impact on the environment
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Emissions
Releases of hazardous materials
Discharge of liquids/waste
Fly tipping
Litter
 All have an impact and cause harm

4. Environmental Risk Assessment
 Society is increasingly conscious of the harm that
its activities can cause to the environment, and
the harm to people or the loss of quality of life
that can result from environmental degradation.
 Manage our activities to minimise risk
 Ensuring economic growth and social progress

5. Environmental Risk Assessment
 Safety of public
 Environment
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Land
Water
Air
Wildlife
Plants and crops

6. Environmental Risk Assessment
 Risk assessors
 Environment agency
 Local government

7. Environmental Risk Assessment
hazards and risks
 Hazard:
 Risk:
 The inherent potential
 The likelihood that
for something to cause
harm.
 Hazards can include
substances, machines,
energy forms, or the
way work is carried
out.
harm will actually be
done by the realisation
of the hazard during
the work being carried
out or
 by the way something
is used.
Risk = Hazard × Exposure.

8. Environmental Risk Assessment
The key stages
1.
Hazard identification.
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2.
Identification of consequences if the hazard was to occur
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3.
Size and scale of the hazard
Estimation of the probability of the consequences
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5.
What could happen?
Estimation of the magnitude of the consequences
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4.
Identifying the property or situation that could lead to harm
Chance it could happen
Evaluating the significance of a risk
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likelihood of the hazard being realised and the severity of the
consequences.

9. Source-Pathway-Receptor
Sources
Examples:
Contaminated
soils
Contaminated
water
Leaking drums
Industrial
process releases
Hazardous
materials
Waste
Pathways
Examples:
Air
Water
Soil
Food chain
Receptors
Examples:
People
Domestic and
commercial
property
Infrastructure
Ecosystems
Animals
Plants
Controlled
waters

10. Exercise 1
 Research harm to the environment of following
potential hazards:
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Emissions
Releases of hazardous materials
Discharge of liquids/waste
Fly tipping
Litter

11. Exercise 2
 Research
Statutory Nuisance
 What does
it mean?
 What types of nuisances does it cover?
 Give an overview of with examples

12. Exercise 3
 How do we reduce the
impact on the environment
when working with waste/recycling materials?
Give some examples of practice
 Research sustainable
practices:
Life cycle
Green purchasing
Route planning/optimising
Closed loop packaging

13. Exercise 4
 What hazards to
the environment do the following
materials present:
plastic packaging
oils, solvents, paints
chemicals
glass/metals
 How can these
be minimised?
 Identify principle legislation regarding waste
materials and the environment...

14. Statutory Nuisance
 Management of statutory nuisance
is set out in
Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
The act places a duty on a local authority to
investigate complaints of statutory nuisance from
people living within its area.

15. Statutory Nuisance
 The following issues may constitute
statutory
nuisances:
 Noise – from premises, or caused by a
vehicle, machinery or equipment in a street
 Artificial Light – from premises as to be prejudicial
to health or a nuisance
 Odour, smells or other effluvium
 Insects
 Smoke
 Dust

16. Statutory Nuisance
 Continued…
 Premises in such a state as to be prejudicial
 Steam, fumes or gases
 Accumulation or deposit
 Animals kept in such a place or manner as to be
prejudicial to health or a nuisance
 Any other matter declared by any enactment to
be a statutory nuisance

17. Statutory Nuisance
 Where a local authority establishes any one of these
issues constitutes a nuisance (i.e. is unreasonably
interfering with the use or enjoyment of someone’s
premises) or is prejudicial to health they must generally
serve an abatement notice on the person responsible.
Failure to comply with the notice could result in the
person being prosecuted.
 Litter, graffiti and dog fouling are not classed as a
Statutory Nuisance.

18. Policies and Legislation
 Environmental Protection Act
 Duty of Care
 Hazardous Waste Regulations
 Waste Carriers Regulations
 Waste Strategy
for England 2007
 Waste Regulations 2011

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20. Group discussion
 How does your organisation’s sites
impact to the environment?
 Think about and research:
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Interceptors
Wheel washing
Containment
Storage
Pest/vermin control
Oil bunds
minimise the