The Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) Board has today, 24th January 2020, taken a decision as indicated below on the IPPC permit for the following application
• Waste Oil Co. Ltd Variation and Renewal of IPPC permit – APPROVED
The installation is located at 42, Spencer Hill in Marsa. The activities carried out on site are within scope of Section 5.1 in Schedule 1 of the Industrial Emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control) Regulation (S.L.549.77):
‘’5.1: Disposal or recovery of hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 10 tonnes per day involving one or more of the following activities: … (j) oil re-refining or other reuses of oil… ‘‘
The application submitted by Waste Oil Co. Ltd covers the variation and renewal of the IPPC permit. The variation considered is related to the storage of used cooking oil collected from households and commercial premises.
The IPPC permit variation and renewal covers a number of environmental obligations which the Permit Holder is to fulfill throughout the validity of the permit to ensure the required level of environmental protection and to ensure that all operations are in line with the Best Available Techniques established at a European level.
All documentation related to this application are available on the ERA website at www.era.org.mt
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