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Plain laguage guidance for businesses on environmental regulations, and how to comply with them. Access to all regulations / directives.
- WRAP: Waste and Resource Action Programme
WRAP's mission is to accelerate resource efficiency by creating efficient markets for recycled materials and products, while removing barriers to waste minimisation, re-use and recycling. - SEPA: Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- CWMRE (Creating Welsh Markets for Recyclate) : The Wales Environment Trust
Researching and providing information on recycling in Wales. Specialised advice and support to Welsh recycling businesses. - Chartered Institution of Waste Management (CIWM)
- Waste Management Industry Training and Advisory Board (WAMITAB)
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- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Environmental Protection: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - What happens to Waste?
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Guidance, information and licences for the waste sector.
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Waste Management Duty of Care - Code of Practice
Environmental Protection Act 1990, Section 34
As a business, you have a duty to ensure that any waste you produce is handled safely and in accordance with the law. This is the ‘Duty of Care’ and it applies to anyone who produces, imports, carries, keeps, treats or disposes of controlled waste from business or industry or acts as a waste broker in this respect.
You are responsible for ensuring the safe and proper disposal or recovery of waste that you produce, even after you have passed it on to another party such as a waste contractor, scrap metal merchant, recycler, local council or skip hire company. The Duty of Care has no time limit, and extends until the waste has either been finally and properly disposed of or fully recovered.
EC Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive 94/62/EC
The EC Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste 94/62/EC seeks to reduce the impact of packaging and packaging waste on the environment, by introducing recovery and recycling targets for packaging waste
Electrical and Electronic Waste (WEEE Directive)
The WEEE Directive aims to reduce the quantity of waste from electrical and electronic equipment and increase its re-use, recovery and recycling.
The producer responsibility requirements for the collection, treatment and recovery of separately collected WEEE are due to come in on 13 August 2005
- Defra: Recycling and Waste: Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- DTI: EC Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
- Envirowise: Electronics Sector
To prevent the pollution from emissions to air, land or water from scheduled processes the concept of integrated pollution control has been introduced
Landfill Directive - Council Directive 1999/31/EC
The Landfill Directive aims to prevent, or to reduce as far as possible, the negative environmental effects of landfill
- NetRegs: Landfill Directive
- Defra: Landfill Directive - Government Interpretation
- Defra: What happens to Waste
- Australian Government
Reusable resource wood/timber, links through to best practice publication,
www.resource.nsw.gov.au/factfiles/timber/links.htm
- Clean Washington Centre
Information sheets on best practice on wood recycling www.cwc.org
- Fauna & Flora International
Information on wood waste and recycling project,
www.globaltrees.org/proj.asp?id=4
- Gottstein Trust
Utilization options for wood waste: Review of European technologies and practices,
www.gottsteintrust.org
- Network Recycling and Future West,
National Assessment of Civic Amenity Sites, 2004
Norlands Foundation,
- Best Practice Guide; Maximising Diversion at Household Waste Recycling Centres, S3 Environmental Solutions Ltd. February 2003
Overview of wood waste in Oregon,
www.deg.state.or.us/wmc/solwaste/woodwaste.html
- RecycleWood
www.recyclewood.org.uk
- Timber Recycling Information Centre,
Information on recycling including 'Turning a Blind Eye Report',
www.recycle-it.org
- Waste Management Training Board,
Information on training and qualifications,
www.wamitab.org.uk
- Wood Recyclers Association,
www.woodrecyclers.sagenet.co.uk
- Wood waste recycling in Germany,
Article on uses of used and residual wood,
www.environmental-center.com/articles/article434/article434.htm
- Friends of the Earth :
For a leading environmental pressure group’s perspective, see Friends of the Earth’s Climate Change Press Release Archive.
- Greenpeace:
Greenpeace’s International Campaign to Save the Climate: “campaigning for governments to face up to their responsibilities and urgently address this problem [of climate change]”.
- National Trust: The National Trust is a registered charity set up to act as a guardian for the nation in the acquisition and protection of threatened coastline, countryside and buildings.
