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• Duty of Care Regulations  Read more►

• Hazardous Waste Regulations    Read more►

• Pre-treatment Regulations    Read more►

• Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) Directive    Read more►

• Batteries Directive    Read more►  

There is now a legal requirement for all waste producers to make changes to the way waste is managed in order to improve our environment.  All non-hazardous solid business-related waste must now be treated before disposal.  What this means in practice is waste stream segregation.

• Waste producers are required to segregate hazardous from non-hazardous wastes and all wastes must be pre-treated before being disposed to landfill.

• Both the producers of waste and those who accept the waste are affected by the new regulations.

• To comply, there are some simple things you can do. You can either separate your waste into various streams yourself at source (i.e. collect materials such as paper and cardboard separately) or, the materials can be separated out after collection but before disposal, with one more of materials being recycled.

• Your choice of system will depend on a number of factors, but you will need to employ one or a mix of systems in order to comply with the regulations AND be able to produce verifiable evidence of this pre-treatment to the environment agency if required. 

It is estimated that 40% of all businesses with 10 or less staff take their business waste home for domestic recycling which is  a breach of Duty of Care regulations.

Why is it wrong to recycle business waste in public facilities?

• It is illegal because public facilities are not licensed to accept business wastes.

• If business recycling is mixed with household recycling, the government set household recycling rates would be inaccurate.

• Householders' council tax would be subsidising a business expense.

• Businesses are legally obliged to abide by the Duty Of Care regulations.  A paperwork trail is required by law which proves that the requirements of the regulations have been properly met - there is no paperwork involved when business waste is illegally deposited into public facilities.