1.1 Purpose
This Technical Guideline (TG) sets out the information that will be used by the National Centre for Waste Management (MWAN/ the Centre) to regulate and license temporary storage facilities for waste in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Furthermore, this document provides guidance on the proper temporary storage of waste at the point of generation, prior to transfer to licensed storage facilities or final recovery/treatment facilities.
However, this technical guideline is not a design manual for temporary waste storage facilities and sound judgement and the appropriate technical expertise needs to be applied to ensure that, when constructed, temporary waste storage facilities will comply with the principles set out here and with any conditions of a licence issued by the Centre.
1.2 Scope
According to Chapter 2 and Annex 5 of the Implementing Regulation of the WML, there are two types of facility/activity involving the temporary storage of waste that are licensed by the Centre. These are:
Therefore, the following are covered in these guidelines:
- Temporary storage of hazardous waste, including recyclable hazardous waste either at waste producers or at stand-alone facilities prior to transfer for treatment/recovery or final disposal;
- Temporary storage of recyclable waste including Bring sites for recyclables delivered by residents and householders and Area residential waste centres.
It does not cover:
- Temporary storage prior to, or after, processing at other waste management facilities, for example, composting plant, energy from waste facilities;
- Sites for bulking up of waste for transfer to another waste management facility;
- Temporary storage at sites specifically designed for sorting such as material recovery facilities;
- Sites for bulking up waste with mechanical, manual, or manually operated mechanical sorting to separate different waste streams; and
- Healthcare wastes, which are the subject of a separate, specific technical guideline.
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