Waste Management Following a Spill in Surface Waters

The content of this guide is largely based on past experience of oil spills, it nevertheless includes a number of specific sections devoted to chemical spills.

Contents

A. REGULATORY ASPECTS

A.1 - International and European regulations

B. GENERALITIES ON SPILL WASTE MANAGEMENT

B1 - Definitions
B2 - Waste origin and categories 
B3 - Past experience 
B4 - Challenges and strategies 
B5 - Phases/stages (from onshore and offshore collection up to treatment)
B6 - Funding

C. PRACTICAL FACT SHEETS

C1 - Contingency planning 
C2 - Waste characterisation/categorisation 
C3 - Waste minimisation/limitation 
C4 - Segregation at source and appropriate containers 
C5 - Unloading waste recovered at sea at “dockside” sites 
C6 - Primary storage sites on the backshore or bankside 
C7 - Intermediate and long-term storage sites 
C8 - Transportation and tracking 
C9 - Pre-treatments and treatments 

• C9.1 - Generalities
• C9.2 - Pre-treatments
• C9.3 - Recovery
• C9.4 - Thermal treatments 
• C9.5 - Biological treatments 
• C9.6 - Physico-chemical treatments 
• C9.7 - Disposal

C10 - Specificities of small-scale spills 

D. PAST INCIDENTS

D1 - Ulysse/CSL Virginia, 2018 - Marine pollution 
D2 - Estuaire de la Loire, 2008 - Shoreline and estuarine pollution 
D3 - Deepwater Horizon, 2010 - Very large-scale marine pollution 
D4 - MSC Napoli, 2007 – Marine pollution by oil and containers 

E. FURTHER INFORMATION

E.1 - Glossary and acronyms
E.2 - Bibliography