Defra has launched a consultation on draft guidance which aims to outline exactly how recent legal rulings and legislation such as the revised Waste Framework Directive relate to the legal definition ...

Europe’s waste management companies will step up efforts to pursue a change to the wording of proposed definitions of ‘recycling’ in EU legislation, following a vote on new waste legislation by MEPs ...

CL:AIRE (Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments) has recently come a step closer to finalising its voluntary code of practice on the definition of waste. CL:AIRE – a not-for-profit ...

DEFINITION: The Waste Framework Directive made compliance with the waste hierarchy a mandatory requirement. The most important priority in the hierarchy is preventing waste. Businesses that import or ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a new definition of solid waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) designed to encourage recycling and to streamline ...