The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011

[F1 PART 2 U.K. Matters which must be included in waste management plans

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 Pts. 2, 2A substituted for Schs. 1 Pt. 2 (1.10.2020) by The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/904), regs. 1(1), 15(10)(b)

Analysis of the current waste management situation etc. U.K.

5.   An analysis of the current waste management situation in England or Wales, as the case may be, the measures to be taken to improve environmentally sound preparing for re-use, recycling, recovery and disposal of waste and an evaluation of how the plan will support the implementation of the objectives and provisions of the Waste Framework Directive.

General policies in relation to waste and litter U.K.

6.   As appropriate and taking into account the geographical level and geographical area to which the plan relates, provisions relating to—

(a) the type, quantity and source of waste generated within the territory, the waste likely to be shipped from or to the United Kingdom, and an evaluation of the development of waste streams in the future;

(b) existing major disposal and recovery installations, including any special arrangements for waste oils, hazardous waste, waste containing significant amounts of critical raw materials or waste streams addressed by specific legislation;

(c) an assessment of the need for closure of existing waste installations, and for additional waste installation infrastructure in accordance with the objective in paragraph 4;

(d) an assessment of the investments and other financial means, including for local authorities, required to meet the needs identified following the assessment in sub-paragraph (c);

(e) an assessment of existing waste collection schemes, including the material and territorial coverage of separate collection and measures to improve their operation, of any exceptions to the requirement for waste to be subject to separate collection and of the need for new collection schemes;

(f) sufficient information on the location criteria for site identification and on the capacity of future disposal or major recovery installations, if necessary;

(g) general waste management policies, including planned waste management technologies and methods, or policies for waste posing specific management problems;

(h) measures to combat and prevent all forms of littering and to clean up litter;

(i) appropriate qualitative or quantitative indicators and targets, including on the quantity of generated waste and its treatment and on municipal waste that is disposed of or subject to energy recovery.

Policies in relation to packaging waste U.K.

7.   In pursuance of the objectives and measures in Directive 94/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on packaging and packaging waste, a chapter on the management of packaging and packaging waste, including measures taken—

(a) to prevent the formation of packaging waste in accordance with the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015;

(b) that consist of national programmes and projects to introduce extended producer responsibility schemes to minimise the environmental impact of packaging;

(c) that achieve a sustained reduction in the consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags;

(d) that actively encourage public information and awareness campaigns concerning the adverse environmental impact of the excessive consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags;

(e) that encourage the increase in the share of reuseable packaging placed on the market and of systems to reuse packaging in an environmentally sound manner without compromising food hygiene or the safety of consumers.

Policies in relation to separate collection of waste U.K.

8.   Measures to promote high quality recycling including the setting up of separate collections of waste, subject to regulation 13.

Policies in relation to bio-waste U.K.

9.   As appropriate, measures, in accordance with the objectives in paragraphs 2 and 3—

(a) to encourage the recycling, including composting and digestion, of bio-waste in a way that fulfils a high level of environment protection and results in output which meets relevant high-quality standards;

(b) to encourage home composting; and

(c) to promote the use of materials produced from bio-waste.

Policies in relation to re-use U.K.

10.   Measures to be taken to promote preparing for re-use activities, in particular—

(a) measures to encourage the establishment and support of preparing for re-use and repair networks;

(b) measures to facilitate, where compatible with proper waste management, the access of preparing for re-use and repair networks to waste held by collection schemes or facilities that can be prepared for re-use but is not destined for preparing for re-use by those schemes or facilities;

(c) the use of economic instruments;

(d) the use of procurement criteria;

(e) the setting of quantitative objectives.

Preparing for re-use and recycling targets and landfill reduction targets U.K.

11.   Measures to be taken to ensure that—

(a) the preparing for re-use and the recycling of municipal waste is a minimum of—

(i) in relation to a national waste management plan relating to Wales—

(aa) 55% by weight by 2025;

(bb) 60% by weight by 2030;

(ii) in relation to any national waste management plan, 65% by weight by 2035; and

(b) the amount of municipal waste landfilled is reduced to 10% or less of the total amount of municipal waste generated (by weight) by 2035.]