§ Nick HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what information she has collected on the(a) UK standards and (b) collected standards of the other EU countries on the recovery of ozone-depleting substances; and if she will make a statement. [34603]
§ Mr. MeacherThe Department published draft UK standards for the recovery of ozone depleting substances from fridges in December last year. These have been widely endorsed and are currently being worked into technical guidance by the Environment Agency. The draft UK standards drew heavily on work already under way with the United Nations (UN) TEAP Task Force and considered those standards and technology used elsewhere, including the German DIN and RAL standards.
§ Nick HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how recovered ozone-depleting substances removed from the insulation foam from redundant refrigerators and freezers is to be disposed of; and if she will make a statement. [34604]
§ Mr. MeacherUnder Regulation 2037/2000 controlled ozone-depleting substances must be disposed of by technologies approved by the Parties (to the Montreal Protocol), or by any other environmentally acceptable destruction technology. These technologies include destruction by liquid injection incineration, reactor cracking, gaseous/fume oxidation, rotary kiln incinerators,924W cement kilns, municipal solid waste incinerators (for foams containing ODS) and radio frequency plasma destruction technology.