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13.—(1) The manufacture from—S
(a)waste which arises from demolition or construction work or tunnelling or other excavations; or
(b)waste which consists of ash, slag, clinker, rock, wood, bark, paper, straw, crushed glass, gypsum, digestate consisting only of biodegradable waste or compost consisting only of biodegradable waste,
of timber products, straw board, plasterboard, bricks, blocks, roadstone, soil, soil substitutes or aggregate.
(2) The treatment of waste soil or rock or digestate consisting only of biodegradable waste or compost consisting only of biodegradable waste which, when treated, is to be spread on land under paragraph 7 or 9, if—
(a)it is carried out at the place where the waste is produced or the treated product is to be spread; and
(b)the total amount treated at that place in any day does not exceed 100 tonnes.
(3) The storage of waste which is to be submitted to any of the activities mentioned in sub paragraphs (1) and (2) if—
(a)the waste is stored at the place where the activity is to be carried out; and
(b)the total quantity of waste stored at that place at any time does not exceed—
(i)in the case of the manufacture of roadstone from road planings, 50,000 tonnes; or
(ii)in any other case, 20,000 tonnes.
(4) In this paragraph—
“digestate” means a stable, sanitised material converted from the inputs to the process of controlled decomposition of waste under managed conditions where free oxygen is absent, at temperatures suitable for naturally occurring mesophilic or thermophilic anaerobe and facultative anaerobe bacteria species;
“compost” means a stable, sanitised material resulting from the autothermic and thermophilic biological decomposition and stabilisation of biodegradable waste in controlled aerobic conditions.