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Defra’s long-awaited response to the 2021 consistency consultation should answer many of the questions councils have about the changes they will have to make to recycling collection services. One of the biggest is whether government Read more >
It seems that, following its consultation on changes to municipal waste management in the UK, Defra still proposes that councils should separately collect food waste from households, unless a ‘TEEP’ test determines that separate collections Read more >
The government’s long-awaited 25 year environment plan (25YEP) received a pretty lukewarm response when it was published in January: good as far as it went, but short on ambition, detail and money. Michael Gove Read more >
Details are starting to emerge of the forthcoming European Commission Circular Economy package proposal, now expected early in the New Year. If the leaks are accurate, and the package is translated into a directive Read more >
The one commonly accepted fact about the Waste Regulations is that they aren’t well understood. Local authorities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are grappling with the question of whether separate household collections of Read more >
Can there still be anyone involved in managing local authority waste collection services that hasn’t heard the phrase TEEP? The requirement to collect four recyclable materials separately, where doing so is necessary and technically, Read more >
It’s hard to predict the exact outcome of the Campaign for Real Recycling’s (CRR) current judicial review of Defra’s latest attempt to transpose the revised Waste Framework Directive (rWFD) into UK law. The indications Read more >
Back in February, I wrote a piece describing the mess Defra were getting into with the legal transposition of the Waste Framework Directive. A legal challenge to their first draft regulations had objected to Read more >
Defra and the Welsh Government got themselves into a legal mess with their first attempt at transposing the revised Waste Framework Directive. Their insistence that a commingled collection of recyclables was a form of Read more >
The provision of waste and recycling services has never been equal. For as long as residents have been expected to separate recycling from residual waste at home, some types of households have had access Read more >