Recycling and waste

Guidance and services

• 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.
• 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.
• The separate collection of waste paper, plastic, metal and glass
  Guidance for organisations on the rules on separate collections of waste materials for recycling.
• 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.

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

• 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.
• Barry Biomass Plant
  FOI release
  Copies of information relating to discussion regarding the Environmental Impact Assessment for the project.
• 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.
• Barry Biomass Plant
  FOI release
  Copies of the information received from the developer in response to the Welsh Government’s letter of 12 April 2019.
• Waste planning case study: municipal sector waste incinerator
  Case study
  How Veolia Environmental Services are generating renewable energy from Sheffield's household waste.
• The single-use carrier bag charge
  FOI release
  Information on the monies raised from the single-use carrier bag charge.
• 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.