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The HWMA is the trade association for all those working in the healthcare and hygiene waste sector.
Representing a very specialist group of businesses, the HWMA champions issues around policy, regulation, and best practice, aiming to be the principal point of contact for providers, consumers, and regulators of healthcare and hygiene waste services.
The association runs quarterly meetings where members come together, network and debate the critical issues affecting the industry.
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Latest News From HWMA
29.06.2021: EA extends RPS C25 Managing LFD testing waste
The EA has extended the expiry of RPS C25 to 31 December 2021. This RPS allows you to accept lateral flow device testing waste coded 18 01 04 and 18 01 07 or 20 01 99 without...
29.06.2021: EA extends RPS C1 for (COVID-19) Cleansing and PPE Waste
The EA has extended the expiry of RPS C1 to 31 December 2021. This RPS allows you to store or treat COVID-19 cleansing and used PPE waste without having EWC codes 15 02 02* or...
29.06.2021: EA extends RPS C8
RPS C8 allows for social distancing to be implemented, because of COVID-19 restrictions, so that you do not need to sign or hand over waste transfer or consignment notes in...
14.06.2021: EA publishes consultation on TCM attendance requirements
Operators of permits for waste operations are required to comply with a government approved technical competence scheme. The EA requires site to have a nominated technically...
29.03.2021: EA Publishes Consultation on SR Permits for Healthcare Waste
The EA has issued a consultation on the proposed revision to SR permit SR 2008 No.24: 75kte clinical waste and healthcare waste transfer station. The proposed changes also...
12.03.2021: EA extends COVID RPS to 30.06.2021
The EA has extended the expiry dates on a number of Regulatory Position Statements issued for the purposes of supporting continued waste operations during COVID restrictions. ...
08.03.2021 EA publishes new RPS C25: Managing Lateral Flow Device (LFD) Testing Waste
The EA has today published RPS C25 which sets out when you can accept LFD testing waste that has been coded 18 01 04 and 18 01 07 or 20 01 99 without the need to formally vary...
February 2021: Association Rebrand Announcement
The past few years has been a testing time for the healthcare waste industry, especially with the progression of COVID-19 and the need to manage an ever changing landscape...
18.12.2020: EA provides clarification re RPS C23 “Incinerating Specified Healthcare Wastes at a Municipal Waste Incinerator
Following the issue of RPS C23 on 18 November, the EA has since published an update to this RPS which sets out when you can incinerate COVID-19 infectious waste at a municipal...
02.10.2020: Cromwell Polythene now recovers and processes waste polythene
HWMA member, Cromwell Polythene, has (in its Cromwell Plastics Recycling division) extended its capacity to recover and reprocess waste polythene. This follows investment in new...