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Green Printing – Duty of Care- waste producers - 17th May 2010
Obligations are placed on everyone who is involved in the waste chain to manage controlled waste in a responsible manner.

• To ensure that no other person in the waste chain unwittingly breaks the Duty of Care requirements due to your actions or negligence.
• To prevent the escape of waste on your premises or during transfer.
• To ensure the waste is transferred to an authorise person such as a licensed carrier.
• To ensure that controlled wastes are properly documented and that sufficient information is given in writing to comply with Duty of Care requirements.
• To keep records of the wastes transferred and make them available on request to the authorities.

Responsibility placed on printers who produce the waste are not particularly onerous and should not be a problem for printing companies who maintain good housekeeping practices.

• Storage: wastes should be stored safely, managers should ensure that waste is packed properly and does not escape on site, or beyond the perimeter of the site.
• Liquid wastes should be stored with particular care as spillages to drains or soil can cause serious pollution problems which can be extremely costly for you to clean up.
• Large storage containers should be stored on an impervious hard staining area which is bounded by a low wall, or small containers on a drip tray to contain spillages. Extra requirements apply to the storage of special and highly flammable wastes.
• When security is a problem, for instance where there is no perimeter fence, it is recommended that lockable skips are used. May printing shops have no external storage areas, in which case the quantity of waste stored on site should be kept to a minimum?

Peter Harrison is Joint MD of The Printing House Ltd, and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

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