environmental act

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Environmental legislation 

Organisations have a right to trade and do business, but not at the expense of polluting the air we breathe or the water we use, or creating noise nuisance or safety hazards with the traffic they cause. At a global level, if we as individuals or organisations contribute to global warming, we will affect the lives of the people we have never met who live in the low lying areas which will flood when sea levels rise.

Some substances emitted into the atmosphere have a direct effect on human health. Car exhaust fumes contain volatile organic compounds, which are not only harmful in themselves, but react in bright sunlight to form a smog which irritates the eyes and respiratory tract. Diesel exhausts produce tiny particles known as PM10s, as well as aldeyhdes, which are harmful to humans.

Environmental protection Act 1990

An Act to make provision for the improved control of pollution arising from certain industrial and other processes. To re-enact the provisions of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 relating to waste on land with modifications as respects the functions of the regulatory and other authorities concerned in the collection and disposal of waste and to make further provision in relation to such waste. To restate the law defining statutory nuisances and improve the summary procedures for dealing with them, to provide for the termination of the existing controls over offensive trades or businesses and to provide for the extension of the Clean Air Acts to prescribed gases.

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The act also regulates waste management and disposal. Producers and handlers of waste are now bound by a duty of care to ensure waste is disposed of directly to a waste disposal authority or to a registered carrier, accompanied by a transfer note, or a consignment note in the case of special waste. A waste management licence for a waste disposal site is required from the Agency, and the site may only be run by a fit and proper person. The Agency is required to inspect closed landfill sites.

Waste collection remains the responsibility of the local ...

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