Mekatek Limited - Unit C, Maerdy Industrial Estate (South), Rhymney NP22 5PY

We’ve received an application to vary an environmental permit from Mekatek Limited

Substantial variation to an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

Application number: PAN-023495
Regulated facility type: Installation

Section 5.3: Disposal or recovery of hazardous waste - Part A(1)(a)(vi) Disposal or recovery of hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 10 tonnes per day involving one or more of the following activities - (ii) physico-chemical treatment.

Section 5.4: Disposal, recovery or a mix of disposal and recovery of non-hazardous waste - Part A(1)(b)(ii) Recovery or a mix of recovery and disposal of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 75 tonnes per day involving one or more of the following activities, and excluding activities covered by Council Directive 91/271/EEC - (v) treatment in shredders of metal waste, including waste electrical and electronic equipment and end-of-life vehicles and their components.

Section 5.6: Temporary or underground storage of hazardous waste - Part A(1)(a) Temporary storage of hazardous waste with a total capacity exceeding 50 tonnes pending any of the activities listed in Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3.

Regulated facility location: Mekatek Limited, Unit C, Maerdy Industrial Estate (South), Rhymney NP22 5PY

The applicant has made an application in order to:

• Consolidate the exempted activities (T4 and T9 exemptions) within the plastic processing activity area and the existing permit into one permitted Installation
• Increase the amount of waste processed by the facility from 30,999 tonnes per annum to 50,000 tonnes per annum (200 tonnes per day)
• Include new automated plant and equipment
• Include additional European Waste Catalogue codes.

The application contains a description of how the proposed changes will 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 potential impact, 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

You can see the application documents free of charge, from our on-line public register. Or you can request a copy of the information from us. This may take time to process and there could be a charge.

If you have any comments send these by 15 August 2024

Email: permittingconsultations@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk 

Or write to:

Permitting Service
Natural Resources Wales
Crown Buildings,
Cathays Park,
Cardiff,
CF10 3NQ

We must decide whether to grant or refuse the application.  If we grant it, we must decide what conditions to include in the permit.  You can find information about how we make decisions in our Public Participation Statement.