Types of Waste
Agricultural
Waste management controls, manure, Agricultural Waste Stakeholders' Forum - agricultural waste
Business
Guidance for small medium sized businesses on how to comply with environmental law - NetRegs website
Advice and support on improving resource efficiency measures, minimising waste production - Business Resource Efficiency and Waste (BREW) Programme
Construction
To stimulate diversion of construction waste from landfill, the Waste Strategy for England 2007 proposed a possible new target of halving the amount of CD&E waste going to landfill by 2012 as a result of waste reduction, re-use and recycling - construction waste
Hazardous
The Government working together with industry aims to reduce the amount of hazardous waste generated in the UK and the hazardousness of such waste - hazardous waste
Inert
Defra, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Environment Agency are undertaking a review of the regulation of inert waste. The aim is to adopt a more proportionate and risk-based regulatory approach to the inert waste recovery and disposal operations - Informal consultation on Review of Inert Waste Regulation.
Wood
The Waste Strategy for England 2007 proposed a programme of work to develop energy markets for waste wood. In April 2008 Defra published a market information report on waste wood as a biomass fuel.
Further information
See also
Page last modified:
9 April 2008
Page published: 5 February 2003