The ‘Right Waste, Right Place’ campaign launched in April 2016 aims to provide ‘practical’ information for companies, partnerships, family businesses and sole traders to comply with waste legislation and tackle waste crime.
Waste and resources firms Veolia, Suez, Corey Environmental, Augean PLC, homebuilding company Redrow and Willmott Dixon, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and the Gloucestershire Joint Waste Team have all signed up to become campaign ambassadors.
These companies will raise awareness of Duty of Care amongst their 5,000 suppliers.
Compliance
The campaign suggests that an estimated 56% of businesses are not complying with the law on how waste should be produced, carried, disposed of and treated, 94% of which are small and medium-sized enterprises.
Sam Corp, Head of Regulation at the ESA, commented: “The number of organisations actively involved with the right Waste, right Place campaign, representing a broad range of sectors, shows just how serious an issue Duty of Care compliance is.
“Therefore, I am delighted to announce Suez, Veolia, FSB, Cory Environmental, Augean PLC, Redrow, Willmott Dixon and the Gloucestershire Joint Waste Team as Campaign Ambassadors and look forward to many more organisations signing up to the programme in the near future.”
Website
The ESA-run campaign centres on an interactive website which shows small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) where their waste should go. The site includes sections titled ‘What is Duty of Care?’ ‘What do I need to do?’ and ‘How do I do it?’.
Right Waste, Right Place received £95,000 from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) via the Environment Agency for the first phase including the development of the new website.
It follows the department’s revised Code of Practice setting out how waste producers and companies in England and Wales should manage waste materials responsibly.
However the 13-page document replaced a much longer, 60-page version of the guidance, which led some professional users to criticise it as “too complicated” for those unfamiliar with waste legislation but “too basic” for waste companies and their advisers. (See letsrecycle.com story).
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