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Waste Management Following a Spill in Surface Waters

This guide is aimed at people who may have to manage waste following a water pollution incident. This guide reviews the different stages of waste management and their constraints. 

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

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Date
21/06/2023
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