Environment Agency
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These standard rules allow you to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
These rules will permit the sorting, separation, grading, shearing, baling, compacting, granulating of cables and cutting using hand-held equipment only, of ferrous metals or alloys and non-ferrous metals for recovery as well as the recovery (including storage) of all waste motor vehicles.
The total quantity of waste that can be accepted at a site under these rules must be less than:
- 25,000 tonnes a year of waste metal
- 5,000 tonnes a year of waste motor vehicles
The rules will not permit the burning of any wastes, either in the open, inside buildings or in any form of incinerator.
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