Construction Waste – How to make it vanish
Half of construction waste already gets recycled, but the other half is still either being spread as Waste (under various licensing exemptions) or simply landfilled. With the pressure on to create less waste, and Site Waste Management Plans now a reality for England & Wales (and coming through the back door in Scotland), Semple Fraser’s Waste Group offer a refresher on ‘when is an alleged waste NOT a waste’.
If correctly applied, the legal answer to that question can legitimately transform what is asserted (often by the regulators) to be ‘waste’ into a genuine non-waste ‘product’.
The “CL:AIRE” advisory group on contaminated land is currently consulting on a new code of practice, which may affect the way the regulators seek to interpret and apply the law. But it does not alter the law, and some helpful pointers to the existing law are contained in the attached briefing.
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