Eurits represents more than 90% of the EU's specialist waste incineration sector, and exists to ensure the safe, legal and environmentally sound incineration of waste.

About Eurits

The group exists to conduct hazardous waste incineration in a safe, legal qualitative and responsible way. It condemns any deliberate infringement of codes of good practice, legislation and regulations, especially in environmental and safety areas.

The group proposes the application of the BATNEEC-principle to hazardous waste incineration. The group adhere to the application of strict standards for the incineration of waste. However, those standards should be applied uniformly over the whole of Europe, and uniformly to all plants performing similar treatment of wastes, whether part of that plant's primary function or not. The group adheres to the priority philosophy of waste management:

  • waste avoidance
  • waste re-use, recycling, recuperation
  • waste incineration with energy recovery
  • waste incineration without energy recovery
  • waste landfilling

A higher step should be preferred when there is an effective advantage.

When waste is recycled the process should not create more pollution than the alternative of a lower magnitude.

The group rejects the use of the "solution by dilution" method in order to diminish the concentration of hazardous contaminants. This is applicable to the original waste streams and all emissions (solid, liquid, gaseous).

The group supports the conviction that a material is defined as waste by its objective nature; the group strongly opposes that the decision is left to the waste producer according to his subjective criteria.

Hazardous waste materials should remain classified as wastes and subject to waste regulations in all their further uses. The only exception will be where the waste undergoes a chemical change in a licensed treatment centre to allow further use as a product but not just as an energy source.

The group supports all efforts on the field of research and development (R&D) for a continuous improvement of waste management methods.

The group supports all efforts to come to a complete transparency in the whole chain from the producer to the final treatment.

The group supports an "open door" policy with regard to the operational aspects of the disposal chain. The aim of this policy is to create public confidence in, and acceptance of, our facilities.