What the legislation says
32. Burial on premises of waste arising from the use on those premises of a sanitary convenience which is equipped with a removable receptacle if the total amount buried in any period of twelve months does not exceed five cubic metres.
What this means
Paragraph 32 allows up to five cubic metres of waste from mobile toilets to be buried on the land where the toilets were situated, per year.
Questions and answers
We have provided the following questions and answers to help you better understand if this exemption covers the type of activity that you wish to undertake.
Paragraph 32
Q. What can you do?
A. You can bury waste from toilets with a removable receptacle provided you don't bury more than five cubic metres at any one place in any one year.
Q. Who can do it?
A. Any company, organisation or individual that registers with us an activity that is exempt under Paragraph 32. By individuals we mean those acting in a business capacity, such as a sole trader. The law does not require an individual acting in a personal capacity to register an exemption.
Q. Where can you bury the waste?
A. At the place or places you identify when you register the exemption which must also be the place where the waste was generated.
Example of an activity which is suitable for registration under a Paragraph 32 exemption:
- A social club has planned an open-air, weekend folk festival and intends to provide temporary toilets with removable receptacles and to bury the waste on site after the event.
The burial of the waste should be registered as a Paragraph 32 exemption if the waste amounts to no more than five cubic metres.
Examples of activities that are not suitable for registration under a Paragraph 32 exemption:
- Mobile toilet facilities are to be installed at a pop venue catering for thousands of attendees.
The burial of more than five cubic metres of sanitary convenience waste would not be permitted and would not qualify for a Paragraph 32 exemption. Larger volumes would require authorised disposal at a sewerage undertakers.
- A social club has planned an open-air, weekend folk festival and intends to provide temporary toilets with integral holding tanks, that are not removable, and to bury the waste on site after the event.
The burial of the waste would not be permitted as it would not be from a removable receptacle.
