How To Dispose Of Dead Animal Carcess

For agriculture businesses that need to dispose of animal carcasses

What y'all must do

You must non normally bury creature carcasses or parts of animate being carcasses on your farm.

You may just bury animate being carcasses in very limited circumstances: for emergency affliction control or if y'all are located in areas designated equally 'remote areas' in the Fauna By-Products Regulations (ABPR).

Disposing of creature carcasses

Check you are authorised

In Northern Ireland, y'all may only bury animal carcasses if you have permission from the Section of Agronomics, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). Burial or burning of fallen stock is permitted in areas designated as 'remote'. The 'remote areas' in Northern Ireland are Rathlin Island and Copeland Islands.

NIEA: Fallen Stock Guidance

In Scotland, you can only bury fauna carcasses:

on farms that are in the designated 'remote areas', and
if an alternative approved disposal road is non bachelor.

Most of the Highlands and islands in Scotland are defined equally 'remote areas'.

Scottish Government: Less favourable areas

Authorised burial

If you are authorised to bury carcasses, you must:

Consult your environmental regulator to discuss the best location for your disposal sites.
Ask your environmental regulator whether you need to utilise for a groundwater authorisation (Northern Republic of ireland) or an authorisation under the Controlled Activities Regulations (Scotland).
Never dispose of carcasses in or most watercourses, boreholes or springs. You may be committing a pollution offence if yous let whatever polluting matter to enter surface waters or groundwater.
Keep a written or electronic record of your disposal sites for at least two years.

Contact your environmental regulator

Good exercise

If you are authorised to bury carcasses and accept complied with all conditions required in your dominance, you will still need to ensure that:

burial sites are at least 250m from any well, borehole or jump that supplies drinking water or h2o for use in a subcontract dairy
in Scotland, burial sites are at to the lowest degree 50m from whatsoever watercourse and at to the lowest degree 10m from any field bleed
there is at least 1m of subsoil beneath the bottom of any burial pit and 1m of soil to cover the carcasses
there is no continuing water at the lesser of the hole when yous first dig it
you lot do non leave pits open or carcasses unburied as dogs, foxes and other scavengers could gain admission to them.

Further information

The codes of practiced agricultural do provide further data for burying carcasses.

In Northern Ireland, come across section viii of the DAERA code of skilful agricultural practice for water, air and soil.
DAERA: Code of good agronomical practise for the prevention of pollution of h2o, air and soil
In Scotland, encounter department x of the Prevention of Ecology Pollution from Agricultural Action (PEPFAA) Code.
Scottish Regime: Prevention of Environmental Pollution from Agricultural Activity (PEPFAA Code) 2005 (Scotland) (Adobe PDF ane.34MB)

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SEE Likewise: Carcass disposal, Carcass incineration, Agriculture guidance

Source: https://www.netregs.org.uk/environmental-topics/waste/managing-waste-materials/animal-carcass-dead-animal-removal/

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