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Monitoring fugitive emissions from shredding waste upholstered domestic seating: RPS 297

Environment Agency regulatory position on monitoring fugitive emissions from shredding waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

Applies to England

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This regulatory position statement (RPS) does not change your legal requirement to make every reasonable effort to avoid contaminating other waste with POPs when you shred waste upholstered domestic seating at a waste treatment site.

However, the Environment Agency will not normally take enforcement action if you do not comply with this legal requirement if you meet the requirements in the RPS.

The regulatory position does not apply to any other legal requirements.

Updates to this page

Published 12 March 2024
Last updated 9 May 2024 + show all updates
  1. In the 'conditions you must comply with' section, the requirement for polybrominated diphenyl ethers levels has been removed to reflect the common analysis done as part of Health and Safety workplace exposure monitoring.

  2. First published.

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