Waste Regulations

Defra Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Environmental Protection: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - What happens to Waste?

DTI: Sustainable Development and environment

Envirowise: Getting to grips with environmental legislation

Environment Agency: NetRegs - Management Guidelines

Waste Management Duty of Care - Code of Practice

As a business, you have a duty to ensure that any waste you produce is handled safely and in accordance with the law. This is the ‘Duty of Care’ and it applies to anyone who produces, imports, carries, keeps, treats or disposes of controlled waste from business or industry or acts as a waste broker in this respect.

You are responsible for ensuring the safe and proper disposal or recovery of waste that you produce, even after you have passed it on to another party such as a waste contractor, scrap metal merchant, recycler, local council or skip hire company. The Duty of Care has no time limit, and extends until the waste has either been finally and properly disposed of or fully recovered.

Defra: Waste and your duty of care

Environment Agency - NetRegs: Duty of care for Waste

Environmental Protection Act

To prevent the pollution from emissions to air, land or water from scheduled processes the concept of integrated pollution control has been introduced

HMSO: Environmental Protection Act 1990

Landfill Directive - Council Directive 1999/31/EC

The Landfill Directive aims to prevent, or to reduce as far as possible, the negative environmental effects of landfill

Defra: Landfill Directive - Government Interpretation

Defra: What happens to Waste

NetRegs: Landfill Directive

EC Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive 94/62/EC

The EC Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste 94/62/EC seeks to reduce the impact of packaging and packaging waste on the environment, by introducing recovery and recycling targets for packaging waste

Defra: Packaging and Waste

DTI: EC Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive 94/62/EC