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FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1993

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DISPOSAL

UNDER THE NEW REGULATION MADE UNDER THE WASTE ORDINANCE, WHICH WILL NOW APPLY TO ALL TYPES OF CHEMICAL WASTE, PRODUCERS HAVE TO PROVIDE PROPER PACKAGING, LABELLING AND STORAGE THEIR WASTE BEFORE DISPOSAL.

WASTE FOR

TRANSPORT THAT CAN

A WASTE PRODUCER CAN ENGAGE A LICENSED COLLECTOR то HIS WASTE TO A LICENSED DISPOSAL FACILITY, ONLY OPERATORS COMPLY WITH STRINGENT STANDARDS WILL BE GRANTED A WASTE COLLECTION DISPOSAL LICENCE BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT (EPD).

OR

HIS LEGAL

A WASTE PRODUCER IS DEEMED TO HAVE FULFILLED OBLIGATION ON CONSIGNING HIS WASTE TO A LICENSED WASTE COLLECTOR.

A COMPUTERISED SYSTEM WILL BE USED ΤΟ EXERCISE CONTROL ON THE DISPOSAL OF CHEMICAL WASTE, TO DETER DISPOSAL SUCH AS ROAD SIDE DUMPING.

COMPREHENSIVE

ANY ILLEGAL

IS

A THREE-COPY TRIP TICKET IS TO ACCOMPANY EACH CONSIGNMENT WASTE, WITH ONE COPY TO BE RETAINED BY EACH PARTY IN THE DISPOSAL CHAIN, THAT

THE WASTE PRODUCER, WASTE COLLECTOR DISPOSAL FACILITY.

OF WASTE AND

TRIP TICKET RECORDS,

EPD CAN

MALPRACTICE,

AND

BY COMPARING THE COMPUTERISED EASILY MONITOR WASTE MOVEMENT, READILY IDENTIFY ANY TAKE FOLLOW-UP ACTION AS APPROPRIATE.

PROPERLY,

ΤΟ

OF

TO HELP WASTE PRODUCERS HAVE THEIR WASTE DISPOSED OF THE GOVERNMENT HAS APPOINTED A CONTRACTOR, THE ENVIROPACE LTD, PROVIDE A CHEMICAL WASTE COLLECTION AND TREATMENT SERVICE FOR MOST THE CHEMICAL WASTE GENERATED IN HONG KONG.

THE

WASTE

ENVIROPACE WILL PROVIDE PROPER CONTAINERS TO PRODUCERS, AND COLLECT THE WASTE FROM THEM ON A REGULAR BASIS.

ONE

CENTRE

THE WASTE WILL BE TAKEN TO THE CHEMICAL WASTE TREATMENT ON TSING YI WHERE THEY WILL UNDERGO

OR MORE OF THE TREATMENT PROCESSES, INCLUDING INCINERATION, PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL OIL/WATER

TREATMENT, SEPARATION AND STABILISATION UNDER OPERATION.

HIGH STANDARDS

OF

DRIED TREATMENT,

IN

A

CHEMICAL WASTE SUCH AS ASBESTOS, TANNERY OFFCUTS AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT SLUDGE, WHICH DOES NOT REQUIRE CAN CONTINUE TO BE DISPOSED OF DIRECTLY WITH DOMESTIC WASTE CONTROLLED MANNER AT THE LANDFILL AT TSEUNG KWAN O.

FOR THE MORE HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL WASTE INCLUDING DRUGS,

CERTAIN DANGEROUS GOODS, DIBENZOFURANS, DIOXINS, PESTICIDES AND POISONS, PCBS, AND SO ON, WASTE PRODUCERS ARE TO NOTIFY EPD BEFORE DISPOSAL OF THEIR WASTE.

DANGEROUS CERTAIN

REQUIRED

THEY MUST THEN FOLLOW THE WRITTEN DIRECTIONS ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT IN HANDLING AND DISPOSING OF THESE WASTE.

IF A WASTE PRODUCER CHOOSES OR NEEDS TO TREAT HIS OWN WASTE ON- SITE OR TRANSPORT HIS OWN WASTE FOR DISPOSAL, HE MAY no 80 PROVIDED HE HAS OBTAINED THE APPROPRIATE DISPOSAL OR COLLECTION LICENCE EPD.

FROM

/WITH RESPECT