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Waste Management Policy England

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is reforming England's waste management system through multiple initiatives including digital waste tracking, waste crime enforcement, plastic wet wipes regulation, and near-elimination of biodegradable waste to landfill by 2028. The policy encompasses exemptions reform and is being implemented through regulations and consultation processes. Current status involves draft statutory instruments and calls for evidence on biodegradable waste targets.

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1 Dec 2023 | Written evidence linked

Stakeholders, including Green Alliance which provided us with written evidence, are concerned that government has not given waste prevention and re-use sufficient priority.36 The Department told us that it aims to push waste up the ‘waste hierarchy’ over time. The waste hierarchy ranks waste management options according to what is best for the environment. Its priority is preventing waste in the first place, when waste is created it gives priority to preparing it for re-use, then recycling, t...

Stakeholders, including Green Alliance which provided us with written evidence, are concerned that government has not given waste prevention and re-use sufficient priority.36 The Department told us that it aims to push waste up the ‘waste hierarchy’ over time. The …

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1 Dec 2023 | Written evidence linked

The North London Waste Authority, Mura Technology Limited and Suez, which invests in or builds the necessary new recycling infrastructure, provided us with written evidence explaining that they need more certainty, clarity and granularity about the Department’s long-term policies on resource and waste management if they are to meet deadlines, targets and make investment decisions.41 Without this there is a risk of 35 C&AG’s Report, para 13, 1.9, 1.20–1.21 36 GRWR0032; C&AG’s Report, para 13 3...

The North London Waste Authority, Mura Technology Limited and Suez, which invests in or builds the necessary new recycling infrastructure, provided us with written evidence explaining that they need more certainty, clarity and granularity about the Department’s long-term policies on …

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