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Modernising Landfill Tax Legislation

Yazan: Lucy | 28 April 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Legislation

That’s the pithy title of a new consultation from Her Majesty’s Treasury which is lurking on their Budget 2009 pages.
The Landfill Tax was introduced in 1996 and has become the major driver behind most municipal waste reduction and recycling efforts.  There a currently two rates of Landfill Tax: the standard rate applies to ’active’ wastes – basically stuff that [...]

Controlled Waste Regulations 1992

Yazan: Lucy | 14 March 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: Legislation

We’ve finally published a timetable for our review of Schedule 2 of the Controlled Waste Regulations 19
Schedule 2 of the CWR sets out types of premises which produce ‘household waste’ (as defined in the Environmental Protection Act 1990) but which a local authority can charge for collection of the waste.  The Regulations are now 16 [...]

INSPIRE: Opening up Environmental Data

Yazan: Lucy | 09 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Legislation

Via a slightly circuitous route (i.e. thanks to Emma Mulqueeny’s excellent blog) I have just discovered the public consultation on the INSPIRE Directive on the Defra website.
OK, so it may seem slightly odd to those of a technical bent to have a consultation about data access of the Defra site, but INSPIRE  is about making available environmental spatial data sets.  More excitingly, [...]

Legislation, Regulation and Consternation

Yazan: Lucy | 21 December 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: General Witterings, Legislation

One of the most interesting things about this new job is the amount of legislation associated with it.  I used to work in Flood Management, which was largely governed by permissive legislation (i.e. it allows certain bodies to do certain things, but doesn’t require them to).  Waste Management, on the other hand, is overflowing with [...]

Flu and other things

Yazan: Lucy | 13 December 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: General Witterings, Legislation

No, I haven’t abandoned this blog, but I’ve spent quite a lot of the last few weeks hiding under a duvet and wishing for a swift end!
So, time for a quick update on what’s going on with municipal waste:
(1) An update to the Waste Framework Directive came into force yesterday, and Member States have 2 [...]