Member

These exemptions are part of a broader effort to simplify recycling processes and ensure compliance with the waste hierarchy. However, they also raise concerns about how they will be practically implemented across different sectors and regions. Are local authorities fully prepared for these changes? Do they have the capacity to enforce these new rules consistently and effectively? Crucially, will the Government ensure that local authorities do not abuse Section 57 of the Environment Act and use either the TEEP excuse—that it is not technically, environmentally or economically practicable to collect recyclable household waste in those recyclable waste streams separately—or the excuse that collecting recyclable household waste in those recyclable waste streams separately has no significant environmental benefit?