Commercial waste centers: Cattle manure surplus
Cattle manure is the excrement and waste products excreted by livestock, alone or in combination, but have been transformed. Typically, we distinguish different types of livestock waste (manure, slurry, manure) as the source and content of dry matter.
The natural and immediate destination for the cattle manure is the application in agricultural soils, since it is, in most cases, a tool for maintaining / increasing organic matter content of soil (and indirectly its physical fertility ), besides being a source of nutrients for crops. When, from the agricultural point of view, the farmer does not have a sufficient land base to apply a correct way the cattle manure generated on the farm must go to a treatment system on the farm, a waste manager.
Commercial waste centers: Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
In the Community program of policy and action on environmental and sustainable development in 1993 (V Program), the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and mentioned as one of the priority waste streams that had to be regular to apply principles of prevention, recovery and safe disposal.
In this sense, the European Parliament in its resolution of November 14, 1996, directed the Commission to present proposals for directives on different priority waste streams, including waste electrical and electronic equipment. Once approved the European Directives 2002/95/EC and 2002/96/EC on WEEE and the restriction to use certain hazardous substances in the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment, the Spanish, by Royal Decree 208/2005, of 25 February, on electrical and electronic equipment and waste management, has moved both directives to state law.
Commercial waste centers: Medical waste
Those are considered medical waste generated in commercial waste facilities, services and health facilities (which may be health promotion, health and social care, biomedical research and medical or veterinary care). For the purposes of management, the regulation distinguishes and regulates medical waste intra center operations that are part of the internal management of the waste producers and extra Center operations that are carried out by producers with the monitoring of the Agency of Europe. Medical waste is classified into four groups according to their biological, basically. Should be highlighted, in this sense, the residues of group III, which by their nature require specific treatment prior to final disposal.
Commercial waste centers: Used tires
Europe is estimated to generate approximately about 40,000 t / year of used tires.
The tire out of use (hereinafter, NFU) has the European Waste Code (EWC) 160 103 and is classified as nonhazardous waste. Tires as waste, are primarily two sources:
1) tire replacement, which comes to replace the tires of a vehicle.
2) tires generated in the process of scrapping a life vehicle (ELV).
The appearance of Royal Decree 1619/2005 of 30 December on the management of used tires, attributes primary responsibility for the proper management of the NFU those responsible for placing on the tire market, whether manufacturers, importers or buyers in another EU state. It also prohibits the disposal of tire chips in controlled landfills from July 2006.