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Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom has said that government ambitions in environmental policy areas including waste will not be ‘watered down’ following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. Addressing the Westminster Environmental Audit Committee at a meeting last month Mrs Leadsom rejected a suggestion from committee chair Mary Creagh that environmental issues may be…
The amount of waste sent to landfill sites in England rose in 2015 – data published by the Environment Agency has indicated. The Agency published a summary of waste management data for England in 2015 last month which suggests that more than 43.9 million tonnes of waste was disposed of in landfill sites. This represents…
Latest data on the collection of packaging waste for recycling suggests that targets for 2016 are on course to be met comfortably by the end of the year. Data published last month on the government’s National Packaging Waste Database website shows that tonnages collected for glass, aluminium, plastic and steel all are currently at levels required…
WEEE producer compliance schemes have banded together to create a ‘producer compliance scheme balancing system’ to handle requests from council for the clearance of WEEE from civic amenity sites. The move comes as a number of schemes had been issued with ‘Regulation 34’ requests which ultimately force a WEEE compliance scheme to pick up the…
A raid by the Environment Agency at a storage site in Essex uncovered WEEE and used gas bottles potentially bound for illegal export. The raid in early October saw Agency officers open storage containers at the site near Upminster. The Agency described the site as a large storage facility where shipping containers are rented out to individuals…
Over the last 20 years WasteCare has published the WasteGuide – a simple guide to UK waste management regulations. Aimed at waste producers and those managing waste, such as FM companies and the waste management sector, the guide is designed to provide the latest advice on current regulation and how to improve recycling and reduce costs….
