Consultation on waste incentive schemes: draft recycling service guidance
New legislation in the Climate Change Bill will allow for the first time 5 pilot authorities in England to trial specific charge-and-rebate schemes for household waste. To complement this, Defra intends to issue guidance to assist local authorities in designing and running successful pilot schemes.
Defra consulted informally in June on six pieces of guidance, which covered application and designation, technical issues, finance, coverage and disadvantaged groups, fly tipping prevention, and recycling service. We are now seeking further views on the recycling service guidance, which concerns the kerbside recycling service which should be in place before a local authority may introduce a waste incentive pilot scheme. The draft guidance proposes criteria that authorities wishing to pilot a scheme must meet, and seeks views on whether these are appropriate.
The recycling service guidance has a different legal status to the other guidance that we intend to publish, because the legislation makes it a precondition that any authority running an incentive pilot has a “good recycling service” in place. That is why we are consulting formally on it now.
Updated versions of all pieces of the guidance will be published once the Climate Change Bill has received Royal Assent.
The closing date for responses to this consultation is 14 November 2008.
Further information
Page published: 15 September 2008