NEWS Archive
Defra Resource and Waste Newsletter covering EPR base fees – 23 August 2024
Defra has circulated their first newsletter since the change in government. The main focus is the recent publication of the EPR...
EA publishes guidance on POPs in lead acid batteries – 21 August 2024
New guidance has been published (9 Aug) on how lead acid batteries must be managed to take account of Persistent Organic...
Defra publishes long-awaited EPR base fees – 15 Aug 2024
Defra has finally published its first estimate of the base fees that will be applied to packaging reported by producers as...
Glass and other recyclable waste from MRFs – EA RPS and Guidance – 5 June 2024
The EA has issued both a Regulatory Position Statement and Guidance LIT 72733 - Glass from waste treatment facilities (002) in...
Defra Resources & Waste: Stakeholder Update – 30 May
Good afternoon, Last week the Prime Minister announced that the UK Parliamentary General Election will be held on 4 July 2024....
First cut of the 2007 packaging regs producer data published – 15 May 2024
With most of the producer responsibility data focus seemingly on EPR at the moment, it seems that a number of packaging...
Defra submits draft DRS SI to World Trade Organisation – 15 May 2024
Defra has sent the proposed regulations for the Deposit Return Scheme for England and Northern Ireland to the World Trade...
Simpler Recycling consultation – government response published – 9 May 2024
The government has published its response to the consultation on Simpler Recycling - originally called Consistency - laying out...
Revised EA charges for waste shipment notifications published – 2 April
The EA has previously consulted on a new - and increased - fee structure for waste export notifications. The revised charges can...
EA publishes updated EPR Agreed Positions – 22 March
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Defra publishes sampling guidance for MRFs – 21 March 2024
Defra has published guidance for the sampling that MRFs are required to carry out under the 2023 amendment to the Environmental...
Defra Stakeholder Forums
Defra has published a list of all the planned stakeholder forums for 2024 relating to the various changes to waste legislation....
EA provides guidance on the use of interim sites for packaging waste exports – 18 Jan 2024
Following a query sent to the EA as to the evidence required for PRNs from exporters of packaging waste who use overseas interim...
Defra publish proposed 2024 amendments to the EPR data regulations – 28 Dec 2023
The 2022 EPR Data Regulations required 6 monthly submission of producer data under the new EPR producer definition with the...
WEEE Consultation published – 28 Dec 2023
The long-awaited consultation on changes to the WEEE Regulations has been published with responses required by 7th March. The...
2024 packaging recycling targets legislation published – 1 December 2023
The packaging waste recycling targets for England and Wales have been published in legislation that went through Parliament on...
Packaging waste recycling targets to stay largely unchanged for 2024 – 15 Nov 2023
Defra announced this morning that the targets for 2024 will be as recently published in a Northern Ireland Statutory Instrument....
Defra announce responses to previous consultations – 21st October 2023
Defra has published their response to three long awaited waste reforms that will have a major impact of both producers of waste...
EA publishes consultation on TCM attendance at permitted sites – 19th October 2023
The EA has today published a consultation on Technically Competent Manager attendance at sites with environmental permits in...
EA update on Exemptions Reform implementation – 19th October 2023
The following was received by email from the EA on 18th October: Timelines - The latest from DEFRA is the Statutory Instrument...
External news links
- Defra launches consultation on the banning of biodegradable waste to landfill – 26 MAY 2023
- Tolvik publishes 2022 UK Waste to Energy report – 10 MAY 2023
- Scottish DRS delayed until March 2024 – 19 APRIL 2023
- Landfill Tax rates to rise by less than expected in 2024 – 06 APRIL 2023
- Defra publishes Consultation on Civil Sanctions – 03 APRIL 2023
- Commons publish report on Landfill Tax fraud – 10 JANUARY 2023
- Waste Tracking Consultation responses published – 20 DECEMBER 2022
- EFRA Committee calls for a ban on plastic waste exports by 2030 – 07 NOVEMBER 2022
- Lack of waste transfer notes leads to £5000 fine – 25 OCTOBER 2022
- Damning Public Accounts Committee report into waste crime ‘decriminalisation’ – 21 OCTOBER 2022
- Defra updates EPR guidance – 07 OCTOBER 2022
- EA publishes RPS for packaging producers wishing to use the allocation method for 2023 target calculation – 30 SEPTEMBER 2022
- EA publishes letter to Councils on POPs in fabric covered seating – 08 SEPTEMBER 2022
- EA publishes consultation on Standard Rules permit consolidation – 22 JUNE 2022