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What does Waste duty of care mean? In legal practice, the waste duty of care is the continuing obligation on anyone who produces, imports, carries, keeps, treats, brokers, deals in or disposes of waste to take reasonable measures to prevent environmental harm and to ensure waste is managed lawfully from creation to recovery or disposal. In England & Wales and Scotland it is a statutory duty under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, s.34, applying to controlled waste and supported by a Code of Practice. It requires: preventing unauthorised or harmful deposit, treatment or disposal; preventing the escape of waste; transferring waste only to authorised persons (e.g. registered...

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Extractive Waste Duty of Care in England and Wales: EPA 1990 s 34(1A) obligations, offences, enforcement and sentencing

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This Practice Note addresses the duty of care for extractive waste in England and Wales only. For guidance on the duty of care relating to controlled waste, see Practice Note: waste duty of care—controlled waste. Under section 34(6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (EPA 1990), it is a criminal offence to breach that duty by failing to take all steps that are reasonable in the circumstances.

Scope of the extractive waste duty of care

EPA 1990, s 34(1A) provides that any person responsible for managing extractive waste must, so far as is reasonable in the circumstances and applicable to them, take measures to:

  • prevent any other person contravening EPA 1990, s 33 in respect of the unauthorised or harmful deposit, treatment or disposal of waste
  • prevent any other person breaching the requirement to hold an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (EPR 2016), SI 2016/1154, reg 12, or a condition of an environmental permit, and
  • prevent the waste from escaping from their...
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