TABLE OF CONTENTS The central theme of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (EPA) is to integrate all forms of pollution control.
The EPA is divided into nine parts:
Integrated Pollution Control and Air Pollution Control by Local Authorities
Waste on Land
Statutory Nuisance and Clean Air
Litter Control
Amendment to the Radioactive Substances Act 1960
Genetically Modified Organisms
Nature Conservation in Great Britain
Miscellaneous Provisions
General Provisions.
This summary concentrates on key parts of Parts 1 and 2 of the EPA.
The EPA defines the following:
The environment consists of all, or any, of the following media, namely, the air, water and land; and the medium of air includes the air within buildings and the air within other natural or man-made structures above or below ground.
Pollution of the environment means pollution of the environment due to the release (into any environmental medium) from any process of substances which are capable of causing harm to man or any other living organisms supported by the environment.
Harm means harm to the health of living organisms or other interference with the ecological systems of which they form part and, in the case of man, includes an offence caused to any of his senses or harm to his property; and harmless has a corresponding meaning.
Controlled waste means household, industrial and commercial waste or any such waste.
Special waste ...
