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Oil Recycling Judicial Review Set
for November 2006
     
 
In our previous article on the Waste Incineration Directive (March Issue) we detailed how the Incineration Directive would effect the Waste Oil collection Industry and how England and Wales would deal with their waste oil as it could no longer be burnt as a fuel and used as a feedstock in power generators.

Since this directive has come into force the majority of the waste oil in England and Waste has been transported to Corus Metals in Redcar to be used in the steel making process as this is the only main site that can still utilise the material.


 


 
  Some oil collectors have started to send the oil as Recycled Fuel Oil (RFO) to Southern Ireland which has with Germany decided to delay the implementation of the directive.

This has resulted in an inequality of costs and processes for the waste oil collection service providers with two camps some which are in strict abeyance of the law and those that are using the legislative challenge in March and June to continue to sell the waste oil as fuel oil whether processed or not.

Nearly a year after the Directive has come into force an Oil Recycling company has decided to seek a Judicial review to allow it to use Clean fuel Oil (CFO) which could have a large implication on how your waste oil is disposed of and affected the way the UK meets its Carbon emission targets as well as impacting on what costs you as a customer would be charged or possibly even paid for your waste oil.

Whatever the outcome of the Judicial review waste oil will remain a headache for all users and handlers of the material as transport, collection and disposal costs continue to rise.

With the above in mind please remember it is your “duty of care” to know what is happening to your waste oil?

 
     
 
 
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