Recycling credits scheme

A review and consultation on the Recycling Credits Scheme were carried out in 2004 and subsequent changes to the scheme were included in section 49 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005. These changes have:

  • increased flexibility of payments from waste disposal to waste collection authorities in two-tier areas by giving authorities the option to agree alternative arrangements;
  • given the Secretary of State powers to set the calculation of recycling credits through secondary legislation; and
  • clarified that credits can be paid for re-use

A further consultation was carried out in 2005 on the method by which the value of recycling credits should be calculated, and draft Government guidance on the recycling credit scheme. In response to the consultation, Government introduced the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (England) Regulations 2006, which made changes to the calculation of the recycling credits for disposal.

Further information

Page published: 15 June 2009