Recycling and waste

Guidance and services

• Geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste: working with communities
  Guidance on the process to follow if you have potential to host a disposal facility for hazardous radioactive waste in your region.
• Help for business to use recycled materials
  The Circular Economy Capital Investment Fund provides grants to use more recycled materials.
• Smells from animal waste processing: guidance for local authorities (circular 17/76)
  Advice for local authorities on how to deal with smell problems caused by animal waste processing.
• The use of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) for environmental offences: guidance
  Different authorities have the power to issue FPNs for specific offences.
• Geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste: community engagement and siting processes
  Our initial guidance on hosting a hazardous radioactive waste facility.
• Contaminated land: guidance for local authorities
  How to identify contaminated land and assess its risk to human health.
• Contaminated land assessment: category 4 screening levels
  Background and guidance on the assessment of land with lower levels of contamination.
• Circular economy capital fund: application form
  This £6.5m fund is open to local authorities and other publically funded bodies. It will help Wales in driving further increases in recycling and decarbonisation.
• Applying the waste hierarchy: guidance
  Explains the waste hierarchy and how it applies to a range of common materials and products.
• The separate collection of waste paper, plastic, metal and glass
  Guidance for organisations on the rules on separate collections of waste materials for recycling.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Waste planning monitoring reports
  Collection
  Statistics on the amount of waste collected and how it was disposed of.
• Towards zero waste: food manufacture, service and retail sector plan
  Policy and strategy
  Our plan to encourage organisations in the food and drink sector to reduce and recycle food waste and packaging.
• Fixed penalty notice returns: 2018 to 2019
  Report
  Penalties issued by local authorities for litter, dog fouling, graffiti, fly-posting, and noise.
• Fixed penalty notice returns: 2007 to 2019
  Report
  Penalties issued by local authorities for litter, dog fouling, graffiti, fly-posting, and noise.
• Towards zero waste: our waste strategy
  Policy and strategy
  Our long term aims for resource efficiency and waste management.
• Waste sector plan and waste prevention programme: summary report
  Report
  Our progress on the actions and commitments of the waste management plan to March 2016.
• Waste strategy: post adoption statement
  Policy and strategy
  How environmental issues were considered in the development of our waste strategy.
• Management and disposal of higher activity radioactive waste
  Policy and strategy
  Our policy on geological disposal for the long term management of radioactive waste.
• Towards zero waste: progress report July 2015
  Report
  Report on our progress towards the targets set out in our waste strategy.
• The waste prevention programme for Wales
  Policy and strategy
  How we plan to help businesses and householders reduce waste.
• Waste planning case study: gasification
  Case study
  How a company in Norway is using the gas produced by burning waste to provide renewable heat.
• Waste prevention programme: post adoption statement
  Policy and strategy
  How environmental issues were considered in the development of our waste prevention programme.
• Fly-tipping strategy
  Policy and strategy
  How we will work with organisations and communities to reduce fly-tipping.
• Waste planning case study: integrated waste management facility
  Case study
  How a recycling facility is generating electricity from material that it cannot recycle.
• Landfill allowance scheme: allocation of allowances
  Policy and strategy
  Details of the amount of biodegradable municipal waste that local authorities can send to landfill up to March 2020.
• Waste planning case study: in-vessel composting
  Case study
  How Wrexham recycling plant are making compost from organic waste.
• Options for extended producer responsibility: food and drink packaging waste
  Report
  Research report into issues associated with food and drink packaging.
• Waste planning case study: municipal sector waste incinerator
  Case study
  How Veolia Environmental Services are generating renewable energy from Sheffield's household waste.
• Composition analysis of litter waste in Wales
  Report
  Provides a baseline of the litter waste composition across a sample of local authorities.