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Waste Transport - Duty of Care (UK)

THE Duty of Care is a law which implements a requirement on each business in England to take "all reasonable steps" to keep their wastes safe. It was introduced thru Section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and covers any firms that produce, import, carry, keep, treat, dispose or broker controlled waste.

The target of the Duty of Care is to guard folks and the environment from unlawfully managed waste. It does this thru making an "audit trail" of accountability for the waste. The environment agencies and local authorities can follow the audit trail back thru all parties that’ve been accountable for it.

They may prosecute if any party has not managed to observe its responsibilities for the waste. The Duty of Care transfer note ought to include an outline of all non-hazardous or unsafe properties connected with the waste. This is to be sure that successive waste treatment or disposal doesn’t cause unfavourable chemical reactions.

The Duty of Care rules are regularly being revised, so make sure you check the requirements on official UK web sites, now that you have found out the basics here..

Recycling household waste is a key topic in the fight to reduce the prblems of landfill, and I make no apology for devoting time to discussing it.

[1] Recycling

is good for our lives and good for the earth. Cleaner air, cleaner water, cleaner land.

[2] Waste handling and separation involves the activities associated with management of waste until they are placed in a storage container for collection.