Information and guidance about reducing and preventing fires in waste disposal site.
WISH (Waste Industry Safety and Health Forum) has released its newly revised waste fires guidance. The revised guidance will be formally launched at a waste fires seminar hosted by CFOA’s (Chief Fire Officers Association) National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) at the National Fire College at Moreton-in-Marsh on 23 June 2017, but is available in advance on the WISH web site at https://wishforum.org.uk.
The revised guidance was produced by the WISH waste fires working group, with the involvement of other interested parties. It is supported by bodies such as the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), the Environmental Services Association (ESA), the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM), the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and Natural Resources Wales (NRW).Representatives from the waste management and recycling industry have come together to form the Waste Industry Safety and Health (WISH) forum.
Criminals are increasingly renting land, particularly vacant warehouses, and then filling them with waste.
The waste is often hidden by baling it in plastic wrapping, and a warehouse can be filled with thousands of these bales in just a few days.
The criminals then vanish, leaving the landowner with the expensive cost of clearing the waste. In recent cases, landowners have had to spend between £200,000 and £2,000,000 to clear sites. It is also a serious fire hazard.