Waste is defined as any substance that occurs during the production and use of any material that will adversely affect human and environmental health. Waste management plans are programs that ensure the planned management of waste in order to prevent environmental damage. The purpose of waste management is to collect hazardous wastes in a separate place, transform them and ensure their disposal. In waste management, there are also post-disposal monitoring and inspection studies.
What is Waste Management?
Waste management is the collection of hazardous wastes produced by institutions, organizations and enterprises in the production, consumption and service sectors separately at the places where they are produced, provision of temporary storage, transportation and disposal. In accordance with the Regulation on the Control of Hazardous Wastes, in which the principles on this subject are regulated, and the Recycling of Non-Hazardous Wastes, in which the principles for the management of non-hazardous wastes are regulated, institutions and organizations that produce hazardous waste form a management plan.
Wastes are grouped according to the areas where they are generated. These include domestic solid wastes, industrial wastes, hazardous wastes, special wastes, medical wastes, excavation wastes.
How to Prepare a Waste Management Plan?
The industrial waste management plan covers the entire management process from the generation of waste to the disposal of all wastes occurring in the facility without harming the environment and living creatures. The waste management plan covers a period of three years. The waste management plan is submitted to the Provincial Directorate of Environment and Urbanization for approval. The validity period of the approved management plan lasts for 3 years from the date of approval. Three months before the deadline, the plan is prepared again. The prepared plan is sent to the approval of the Provincial Directorate of Environment and Urbanization.
It is necessary to ensure that the waste management plan is prepared in the correct format for approval. It is necessary to prepare the management plan in two copies. As such, it should be submitted to the Provincial Directorate of Environment and Urbanization. It is very important to include information on non-hazardous and dangerous temporary storage areas in the plan.
In case of deficiencies in the created plan or in cases where changes are required, an application must be made to the Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization within 1 month at the latest by updating it. It is very important not to submit unwanted, unnecessary or incomplete information and documents in the plan.
In the plan prepared for the facility, if there is work to be done for waste reduction, it should be added to the plan. If there is a waste reduction plan, it is very important to include it in the document in order to reduce the disposal cost of the hazardous chemical waste amount in the facility.
