Legislation
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DCLG defends planning policy amid waste concerns
16 May 2012Official tells parliamentary event that the planning framework still applies to waste despite criticism from the industry
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Commission calls for move up waste hierarchy
16 May 2012Official tells FEAD event that European Commission will use both carrots and sticks to ensure member states comply with waste legislation
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Recycling firm fined after worker crushed to death
16 May 2012South Wales company Amber Services Ltd fined £112,000 after yard foreman became trapped between container and skip in 2008
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Defra to update waste hierarchy guidance
14 May 2012Government calling for feedback to help businesses better apply the hierarchy with new guidance to be published later this year
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Scotland in first step on ‘separate’ collections
10 May 2012Waste (Scotland) Regulations include references to the separate collection of materials along with rules covering local authorities and businesses
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Scottish waste regulations approved by parliament
10 May 2012Businesses in Scotland to separate recyclables and food waste by January 2014 as Waste (Scotland) Regulations are passed
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Jailed waste criminal must pay back record £917,000
4 May 2012Reading businessman Hugh O’Donnell ordered to repay money under largest Proceeds of Crime Act ruling ever secured by Environment Agency
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Split plastic packaging recycling target proposed
3 May 2012Plastics recyclers call for government to amend PRN system which it claims currently favours plastic export over UK reprocessing
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Veolia fined £5,000 after worker burned by ash
30 April 2012Company fined and ordered to pay £12,243 in costs after an agency worker was burned by hot ash at the SELCHP facility in South London
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Landfill operator information to be made public
30 April 2012EXCLUSIVE: Decision by Information Rights Tribunal concerning landfill near Swansea could pave way for other sensitive information to be disclosed
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