Hazardous waste: how to complete your consignee return

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April 03, 2014 23:00

If you receive (or reject) any hazardous waste you must send a report to the Environment Agency. These are known as ‘returns’.

service business depot receiving waste produced by its staff at customer premises, such as service engineers maintaining refrigeration units, photocopiers, lifts or forklifts

business moving its own waste from one of its premises to another of its premises

business accepting waste returned by or from its customers, such as shops or suppliers accepting waste electrical devices or paint from business customers

registered exempt or permitted waste facility accepting hazardous waste from others

registered exempt or permitted site that rejects a hazardous waste, such as because the site was not permitted to accept it

If you dispose of hazardous waste at the premises where it’s produced, you may also need to send returns.

If you do any of these things, you are a ‘consignee’.

How to use the spreadsheet tool to send your consignee return

Save a copy of the consignee returns spreadsheet. You need a Windows operating system and you need to enable macros in Microsoft Excel.

You must complete the spreadsheet in this order.

1. Click on ‘consignee details’ – you can click the ‘help’ tab for guidance:

click ‘add new’ to add details of a consignment

note: the producer postcode must be the postcode from part A2, the place where the waste was collected from

if there’s more than one type of waste in the consignment, add them by using ‘add new waste’, also use this if a waste will have more than one method of disposal or recovery – you can also use the add new waste details to add an existing consignment from the main screen

when entering multiple consignments, you must add the collection numbers in sequential lines on the spreadsheet until you’ve added all the entries for that round

once you’ve checked the information press ‘validate’ to identify some types of incorrect information – correct these before you send to the Environment Agency

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