The final draft of the new BREF document on waste treatment has been made available to the public by the end of October 2017.
The document can be downloaded from the following link: http://eippcb.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reference/BREF/WT/WT_Final_Draft1017.pdf and should be approved by the first months of 2018 in its final version. It represents the state of the art about the technologies applicable to waste treatment.
The last draft presents many modifications compared to the current version (approved in 2006): we highlight the changes introduced to the methods for the treatment of asbestos-containing waste and the aspects related to the characterization of waste, refer to the standards EN 14899 and CEN TR 15310 concerning the preparation of sampling plans.
