CT4 7BA, Synergy Asset Services Limited: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/FB3602HU/V002
Published 30 July 2024
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Details of the application
The Environment Agency has received an application to vary an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 involving substantial change to a permit from Synergy Asset Services Limited.
Application number
EPR/FB3602HU/V002
Regulated facility type
The site currently operates a treatment process for the physical treatment including manual sorting and separation of hazardous and non-hazardous waste for disposal (no more than 50 tonnes per day) or recovery. The site also operates physical treatment including sorting, separation and manual dismantling of non-hazardous waste for disposal (no more than 50 tonnes per day) or recovery, primarily for the recovery of fire extinguishers.
The application is seeking to add:
Section 5.3 (a) (ii) - haz waste installation – physico - chemical treatment, for the treatment of hazardous canisters.
Section 5.6 - temporary storage of hazardous waste.
Vary the non-hazardous waste treatment activity to enable the recovery of non-hazardous waste at a greater capacity as well as extending the site boundary.
Increase the sites annual throughput to 30,000 tonnes
Regulated facility address
Merton Farm
Merton Lane South
Canterbury
CT4 7BA
The application contains a description of how the proposed change(s) may affect:
- the installation
- the materials, substances and energy it will use and generate
- the conditions of its site
- the source, nature and quantity of its foreseeable emissions and their significant effects on the environment
- the proposed techniques for preventing, reducing, and monitoring its emissions and preventing and recovering waste
- and an outline of the main alternatives, if any, considered
How to view and comment on the application
If you have any comments on the application send these by 28 August 2024.
You can comment:
Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space
Via email: pscpublicresponse@environment-agency.gov.uk
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