7.6 Safe handling and storage of waste

Question 1

What is being described below:Any substances or object (Defined in Schedule 2B of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 - EPA) which the holder discards, or intends or is required to discard.

Answer 1

Waste

Question 2

What is being described below (some words have been removed from the text).All businesses produce waste have a legal responsibility to ensure that the waste is stored, transported and disposed of without harming the environment. This is called the ____________The ____________ requires businesses to:  Store and transport waste appropriately and securely so that it does not escape;  Check that waste is transported and handled by people or businesses that are authorised to do so;  Complete waste transfer notes (WTNs) to document all waste transferred (to be kept as a record for at least two years); and  Check that the site the waste carrier takes the waste to is authorised to accept it.

Answer 2

‘duty of care.’