London Wider Waste Strategy - London - Greater London Authority

Table 6.5: In-house landfills which have submitted duly made applications to
the Environment Agency (20 April 2004)
In-House Landfills for Hazardous Waste (20 April 04)
Site Name Operator Location EA Region EA Area SPG Range of Hazardous
Wastes
Permit
Status
1 Bradley Park Syngenta Huddersfield, North East Ridings N Wide range of wastes To be
Landfill
West Yorkshire
determined
2 Grange Top Castle Cement Ketton, Nr Anglian North N Haz (Cement Kiln Dust) Permit
Quarry
Stamford
only
Issued
3 Rugby Works Rugby Cement Rugby, Warks Midlands Lower Severn B Cement Kiln Dust and on To be
site roadsweepings determined
4 Southam Rugby Cement Southam, Warks Midlands Lower Severn B Cement Kiln Dust and on To be
site roadsweepings determined
5 Alcan Pot Linings Alcan Aluminium Newbiggin, North East Northumbria W Spent pot linings To be
Northumberland
determined
6 Coplow Quarry Castle Cement Clitheroe,
Lancashire
North West Central W Cement Kiln Dust Refused
7 Royal Ordnance BAE Systems Chorley, Lancs North West Central W Contaminated land and Permit
Landfill
other haz waste including Issued
asbestos
8 Randle Landfill Ineos Chlor Ltd Runcorn, North West South W Treated haz wastes To be
Cheshire
arising from the chemical determined
manufacturing process
SPGs KEY
N: Nottingham W: Warrington B: Bristol
6.53. Landfills listed in Table 6.5 are in-house landfills. Therefore, although they have
capacity for hazardous waste, this is not a widely available commercial capacity as the
landfill capacity will be used by the host company alone. Hence, these landfills do not
add any additional capacity for London’s hazardous wastes.
6.54. After implementation of the new regulations there is expected to be just one landfill
accepting hazardous waste in the South East area; i.e. the Pinden Quarry in Dartford.
However, this is only licensed to accept asbestos. The PF Ahern (London) Ltd. landfill
that used to accept asbestos is now closed and being remediated. The current lists of
hazardous landfills indicates that the closest hazardous landfill which is applying for
permission to receive a range of hazardous wastes is Huntingdon, Cambs (approximately
76 miles from central London), while the closest site currently with a permit is
Kingscliffe, Northants (approximately 90 miles away from central London).
6.55. An accurate assessment of the landfill capacity is difficult to make in a situation where
PPC permits have yet to be determined. However, it is clear that landfill capacity for
most hazardous waste in the London area will be non-existent, with pre-treated waste
having to travel long distances (at least 75 miles) before disposal.
6.56. It is quite possible that the process of permitting will not be completed for all the sites
until shortly before the July 2004 deadline.
Recommendation 51: It is recommended that caution should be exercised in relation
to the number of hazardous wastes landfill sites that it is anticipated will
become available in the near future; rather the situation should be monitored
during the next few months since the actual number of permitted hazardous
waste sites may vary significantly from that predicted.
6.57. As previously noted, around 73% of the hazardous waste arisings in London are from
the ‘construction and demolition and asbestos’ waste category, of which a large
proportion are contaminated soils (Figure 6.2) . Whilst there is no current alternative to
landfill for asbestos, there are a range of alternative treatments available for
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