Identification forms for garages and car repair shops

What waste does a garage produce?

VLAREMA treats waste from servicing and repairing vehicles as special waste. These groups may not be mixed; you store them separately and have them collected separately. Most of them are hazardous:

• Used engine, gear and lubricating oil (EURAL 13 02): hazardous
• Oil filters (16 01 07*): hazardous
• Lead batteries (16 06 01*): hazardous
• Brake fluid (16 01 13*): hazardous
• Coolant: hazardous if it contains hazardous substances (16 01 14*), otherwise not (16 01 15)
• Contaminated rags and absorbents (15 02 02*): hazardous
• End-of-life tyres (16 01 03): not hazardous

Who draws up the identification form?

If a registered collector (IHM) picks up your waste, the collector is responsible for the identification form. As the producer you receive a copy and keep it for at least five years.

Hazardous waste picked up on a collection round needs an identification form per address. The collection-round exemption only applies to non-hazardous waste.

Exemptions that may apply to garages

• Small business: if your whole company has fewer than ten employees and you take your own waste to a collection point yourself, no identification form is needed
• Maintenance at third parties: waste produced during servicing or repairs you carry out at a customer's premises, which you bring back to your own business or to a processor, is exempt regardless of the number of employees
• Take-back on delivery: a supplier that, under a take-back obligation, takes old tyres or batteries away when delivering new ones does not need an identification form

Even when no identification form is needed, every hand-over of business waste requires a delivery receipt (afgiftebewijs).

Waste oil

Waste oil is hazardous waste that must be collected by a registered collector. Waste oils with different properties may not be mixed if that hinders regeneration. A take-back obligation applies to waste oil, with Valorlub as the managing body. If your oil is collected by a collector working with Valorlub, you may receive a fee for small quantities, subject to conditions.

Tyres

A take-back obligation applies to tyres. The final seller takes back old tyres free of charge when the customer buys new ones. If at least 60 end-of-life tyres are released at your site and you are registered with Recytyre as a pick-up point, they are collected free of charge. Never hand old tyres to farmers or unregistered collectors, and record every collection in your waste register.

Your waste register

As a producer of business waste in Flanders you keep a register, updated at least monthly and kept for five years. It may be kept on paper. A collection of identification forms may serve as the register, supplemented with the hand-overs for which no form was needed.