M.Env/02/053/2005

1

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Database for Best Practice in Waste Minimisation

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Presented by Bob Morley

M.Env/02/053/2005

2

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Content

The Requirement & EARWG

The Waste Minimisation Database

Summary

M.Env/02/053/2005

3

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Information & Improvement Requirement

“The Operator shall provide the Agency with a detailed report of a review of national and international developments in best practice for minimising all waste disposals together with a strategy for achieving a continuing reduction in discharges.”

M.Env/02/053/2005

4

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Information & Improvement Requirement

“The Operator shall provide the Agency with a detailed report of a review of national and international developments in best practice for minimising all waste disposals together with a strategy for achieving a continuing reduction in discharges.”

-- can be thought of as three stages: the review; the resulting conclusions & recommendations; a strategy for implementation.

The database is for the first stage only.

M.Env/02/053/2005

5

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Comments on I&IR

Same for all Operators

Requires the same (or heavily overlapping) review(s) of national & international developments

Hence the formation of the ‘Environment Agency Requirements Working Group - EARWG - and the decision to co-operate in construction of a database for waste minimisation techniques

M.Env/02/053/2005

6

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

EARWG Membership AWE Sellafield Ltd British Energy LLW Repository Ltd DML GE Healthcare Magnox Electric Rolls Royce UKAEA Rosyth Springfields Fuels

M.Env/02/053/2005

7

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Waste Minimisation Database (1)

Resource to help each participating operator to respond to the I&IR, but also a ‘best practice’ tool

Maintained, so always up-to-date for operators

Information gleaned from: UK operators; published literature; conference proceedings; international sources

Data entered only after facts independently verified by acknowledged expert

M.Env/02/053/2005

8

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Waste Minimisation Database (2)

Substantial piece of work

Operators benefit from cost-sharing while also drawing on a wider range of expertise than would be available to a single site

Now available via the Internet

www.rwbestpractice.co.uk

M.Env/02/053/2005

9

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Waste Minimisation Database (3)

Over 120 hours spent reviewing national and international information sources (I.e. conference proceedings, manufacturing standards, operator technical reports etc)

~120 datasheets produced regarding techniques that minimised the activity and/or volume of radioactive waste

Datasheets independently peer reviewed by national and international nuclear experts and national non-nuclear experts

M.Env/02/053/2005

10

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Database Purpose Operator resource ‘Pick list’ of information, only some of which

is relevant to particular sites with particular wastes

Tool to underpin the quality of information provided in the final I&IR report

Helps with ‘review’, but does not provide recommendations or strategies

‘Best Practice’ tool for use at any stage of the authorisation cycle

M.Env/02/053/2005

11

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Webpage Login Screen Shot

Access controlled: Passwords

reviewed biannually and a register held

by the EARWG

M.Env/02/053/2005

12

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Tier 1   Tier 2   Tier 3   Tier 4   Tier 5

Waste Type   Technological area

  Operation   Operation specifics (1)

  Operation specifics (2)

                 

  Other Technologies 

 

     

         

       

           

           

       

         

       

         

       

           

           

         

                 

Liquid Releases

Ion Exchange Beds 

 

Organic Phenolic

Acrylic

Inorganic   

 

Zeolites

Titanites

Hexacyanoferrates

Composite

Tiered approach to categorising waste minimisation technologies. Tier 1 based upon waste type media (solid, liquid, airborne)

Database Structure

Expanding depth of information

M.Env/02/053/2005

13

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Database Content – Liquid Waste

M.Env/02/053/2005

14

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Database Content – Solid Waste

M.Env/02/053/2005

15

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Database Content – Airborne Waste

M.Env/02/053/2005

16

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Waste Minimisation Technique Search

Three ways of searching

Hierarchical search Keyword search Datasheet search

Output

Datasheet (Screen View) Report (Print View)

M.Env/02/053/2005

17

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Hierarchical Search

Tier 1 folder

Tier 2 folder

Tier 3 foldersTier 4 folders

User can open the tier folders to get to the desired

technique datasheet.

M.Env/02/053/2005

18

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Open Datasheet

Option to view the datasheet

(screen view)

Option to view the datasheet report

(print view)

M.Env/02/053/2005

19

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Example of Datasheet - Ion Exchange

Author and date produced

Categories of information

M.Env/02/053/2005

20

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Example of Datasheet - Ion Exchange (cont.)

Hyperlink to independent experts’ CV

Date datasheet was approved

M.Env/02/053/2005

21

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Datasheet Report (Print View)

Datasheet examples to be distributed for

your information only

M.Env/02/053/2005

22

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Keyword SearchInput Search for

keywords in datasheet title

Search for keywords in

datasheet textOutput

Hyperlink leads to the datasheet

Leads to print view of all identified

datasheets

M.Env/02/053/2005

23

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Datasheet Search

Report output options

Datasheets listed in

alphabetical order

M.Env/02/053/2005

24

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Report Output

Datasheet examples to be distributed for your information only

M.Env/02/053/2005

25

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Industry Use of Techniques

National review of industry use of waste minimisation techniques to enable users to determine where each waste

minimisation technique is/has been employed across the industry

to facilitate the sharing of specific information on the application of the technique

M.Env/02/053/2005

26

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Industry Use of Ion Exchange Sheet shows the

EARWG members who use the technique

The detailed application statements to state how the technique is/was used, what for, where and when.

M.Env/02/053/2005

27

Environment Agency Requirements Working Group

Summary Operators (via EARWG) share information

on waste minimisation A database of peer-reviewed information has

been created and is kept up-to-date Facts from the database inform each

operator in responses to the common I&IR The database itself is not the answer to the

I&IR - it merely informs the review Use of the database is not limited to I&IR

responses