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Animal By-products Incinerators

The government has issued updated guidance on the steps you must take to ensure all your animal waste – including animal by-product (ABP) – is incinerated carefully, and successfully.

Here we have included some key information to help you ensure you meet all guidelines.

1. What is animal by-product?
2. Incinerating animal by-product
3. How can you get your incinerator approved?
4. Where can I get more information?
5. 10 Top Tips for ABP incineration

1. What is animal by-product?

In this case, ABP refers to everything from live animals rejected from abattoirs because they’re infected, and carcasses of animals used in experiments. It also includes unhatched poultry, which has died in its shell, and meat which was originally intended for human consumption, but has been withdrawn.

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2. Incinerating animal by-product

If you’re already using an incinerator to dispose of animal carcasses, it is inevitable that at some point you will be left with unmanaged ABP that hasn’t been completely burned but must still be disposed of. As such, you must reburn it.

It is vital that your live animals do not come into contact with raw, remaining ABP awaiting incineration, or the ash left after the first incineration.

In most cases, you can only send ABP to landfill if it is completely incinerated, and only ash remains. However, in England and Wales, ash from category 2 or category 3 pig and poultry ABPs can be used on farmland for fertilisation purposes.

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3. How can you get your incinerator approved?

When getting your incinerator approved, incinerating animal carcasses on their own requires Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) approval. But if you’re working with ABPs, consider the following guidance:

• If you burn more than one tonne per hour and your site is in England or Wales, you must be approved by the Environment Agency.
• If you burn less than one tonne per hour and your site is in England or Wales, you must be approved by your local authority.
• If your site is in Scotland, you must be approved by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).

You must also apply to the APHA for high capacity or low capacity incinerator approval, depending on whether you burn more or less than 50kg of waste per hour.

If you incinerate a mixture of ABPs and non-ABPs, you will also need Environment Agency approval under the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and registration by APHA. You can complete the registration form here.

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4. Where can I get more information?

Most countries have their own dedicated agricultural or farming agency or government department. For the United Kingdom you ca find these below:

• England & Wales - DEFRA
• Ireland - DAERA

If you are located outside of the United Kingdom please consult your local authorities and/or environmental agency.

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