How to store and handle solids: for businesses
If your business produces, uses or stores any solid materials, you must consider the pollution risks and act to reduce those risks.
If your business works with solid materials, you must store and manage them the right way. This will help prevent spills or emissions that could harm human health and the environment.
Examples of solid materials are powders, granules and pellets.
Our Solid storage and handling guidelines (publication 1730) gives information on:
- where solid materials can come from
- how solid materials can harm the environment and people’s health
- ways to prevent solid materials entering the environment.
Other resources for storing and handling solids include:
- Management and storage of combustible recyclable and waste materials – guideline (publication 1667)
- Assessing and controlling risk: a guide for business (publication 1695)
- Industrial Waste Resource Guidelines – Large containers (>200 L) contaminated with PIW – Classification for reuse (publication IWRG422)
- Industrial Waste Resource Guidelines – Solid industrial waste hazard categorisation and management (publication IWRG631)
- Liquid storage and handling guidelines (publication 1698)
- How to manage your environmental risk
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Reviewed 14 September 2020
