Recycling and waste

Guidance and services

• Prioritisation of waste and recycling collection services: coronavirus (COVID-19)
  Provides guidance on the relative prioritisation of waste and recycling services from households and non-domestic premises during the coronavirus outbreak.
• Local authority recovery targets: statutory guidance
  Guidance for local authorities on the definitions of recycling, preparation for re-use and composting.
• 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.
• Applying the waste hierarchy: guidance
  Explains the waste hierarchy and how it applies to a range of common materials and products.
• Applying the waste hierarchy to hazardous waste: guidance
  This guidance will help you understand what you should do about hazardous waste and the waste hierarchy.
• Geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste: community engagement and siting processes
  Our initial guidance on hosting a hazardous radioactive waste facility.
• 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.
• The separate collection of waste paper, plastic, metal and glass
  Guidance for organisations on the rules on separate collections of waste materials for recycling.
• Contaminated land assessment: category 4 screening levels
  Background and guidance on the assessment of land with lower levels of contamination.
• Contaminated land: guidance for local authorities
  How to identify contaminated land and assess its risk to human health.
• Fixed penalty notices (FPNs) for environmental offences: guidance
  Explains who can issue fixed penalty notices, how they are managed and maximum fines.
• Help for business to use recycled materials
  The Circular Economy Capital Investment Fund provides grants to use more recycled materials.
• Strategic assessment for the future need for energy from waste capacity in Wales
  Information to be used by developers, local planning authorities and the Planning Inspectorate Wales.
• Environment (Wales) Act 2016: waste
  Explains that the quantity of waste and how we deal with it affects our environment.
• Fixed penalty notice returns for environmental offences
  Penalties issued by local authorities for litter, dog fouling, graffiti, fly-posting, and noise.
• Household waste duty of care - fixed penalty notices (FPNs): guidance
  Guidance for Welsh Local Authorities when issuing FPNs for breaches of the household waste duty of care.

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

• The waste prevention programme for Wales
  Policy and strategy
  How we plan to help businesses and householders reduce waste.
• Waste prevention programme: post adoption statement
  Policy and strategy
  How environmental issues were considered in the development of our waste prevention programme.
• Composition analysis of litter waste in Wales
  Report
  Provides a baseline of the litter waste composition across a sample of local authorities.
• Management and disposal of higher activity radioactive waste
  Policy and strategy
  Our policy on geological disposal for the long term management of radioactive waste.
• Options for extended producer responsibility: food and drink packaging waste
  Report
  Research report into issues associated with food and drink packaging.
• Waste planning monitoring reports
  Collection
  Statistics on the amount of waste collected and how it was disposed of.
• 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.
• Fly-tipping strategy
  Policy and strategy
  How we will work with organisations and communities to reduce fly-tipping.
• The Waste (Prescribed Enactments) (Wales) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These Regulations ensure that waste operators won’t be considered to be committing an offence under certain legislation when they are acting under a Direction from the Welsh Ministers.
• Beyond recycling
  Collection
  Our plan to make the circular economy in Wales a reality where we keep resources in use and avoid waste.
• Circular economy package policy statement
  Policy and strategy
  The policy statement sets out the key changes to be made in implementing the Circular Economy Package (CEP).
• Waste planning case studies
  Collection
  How companies are using waste to generate heat, electricity and compost.
• Towards zero waste: our waste strategy
  Collection
  Details of our long term aims to minimise waste by reusing and recycling.
• Municipal sector plan
  Collection
  Sets the agenda for the management of local authority municipal wastes and builds on the principles of towards zero waste.
• Evaluation of digital technology in a deposit return scheme: phase 1 report
  Report
  We are developing proposals for the introduction of a Deposit Return Scheme for drink containers (DRS).