Sepember 10, 2009
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Waste & Recycling Newsletter Sepember 10, 2009 |
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Defra research on landfill bans
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is researching how landfill bans on materials such as paper, food, glass, aluminium or wood could be implemented in the UK. It comes after environmental charity Green Alliance recently completed a consultancy report for Defra called Landfill bans and restrictions in the EU and US (August 2009). The aim of the report was to analyse four EU countries (Austria, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands), the Flanders region of Belgium and a US state (Massachusetts) that have implemented restrictions or bans on the landfilling of a range of ... |
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UK government clarifies its position on WEEE ruling
The Government has written to all waste electrical and electronic equipment compliance schemes to respond to queries raised in relation to last month’s Repic judicial review ruling and to clarify its position. WEEE compliance scheme Repic took the Government to court and claimed that the WEEE Regulations were unlawful and that the Government had behaved unlawfully in not taking enforcement action against schemes that had over collected WEEE. Last month, the High Court decided that the regulations were lawful and that the Government had not acted unlawfully (see MRW story). The Environment ... |
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