§ Sue DoughtyTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 11 March 2004,Official Report, column 1620W, on hazardous waste, how the predicted number of 750,000 active producers of hazardous waste following the implementation of the revised European hazardous waste list was reached; and how she will alert the newly included producers to the inclusion of their waste arisings on the new list. [164078]
§ Mr. MorleyThe Environment Agency commissioned work from consultants to inform work on the transition from the current Special Waste regime to the Hazardous Waste regime. The predicted number of 750,000 active producers of hazardous waste was derived from an analysis of the available data on the expected types of newly hazardous wastes correlated with an assessment of the numbers of those businesses likely to produce such waste.
The Department is working with key stakeholders in the Hazardous Waste Forum including the Environment Agency the Department for Trade and Industry and Federation of Small Businesses to ensure that awareness of these changes will be brought to the attention of affected businesses.