Recycling, waste and the circular economy

Guidance and services

• Local authority recovery targets: statutory guidance
• Smells from animal waste processing: guidance for local authorities (circular 17/76)
• Applying the waste hierarchy: guidance
• Applying the waste hierarchy to hazardous waste: guidance
• Geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste: community engagement and siting processes
• Geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste: working with communities
• The separate collection of waste paper, plastic, metal and glass
• Contaminated land assessment: category 4 screening levels
• Contaminated land: guidance for local authorities
• Fixed penalty notices (FPNs) for environmental offences: guidance
• Help for businesses to use recycled materials
• Strategic assessment for the future need for energy from waste capacity in Wales
• Environment (Wales) Act 2016: waste
• Deposit return scheme
• Workplace recycling regulations: a guide for residential settings (including care homes)
• Workplace recycling regulations: a guide for outdoor events and festival organisers
• Workplace recycling regulations: a guide for the retail sector
• Workplace recycling regulations: a guide for the hospitality and food sector
• Workplace recycling regulations: a guide for small and medium sized businesses and enterprises (SMEs)
• Workplace recycling regulations: a guide for the leisure facilities and entertainment sector
• Separate Collection of Waste Materials for Recycling: A Code of Practice for Wales
• Single-use plastics: statutory guidance
• Guidance for waste collectors and handlers
• Workplace recycling regulations: a guide for educational settings and universities
• Separated waste collections for workplaces
• Household waste duty of care - fixed penalty notices (FPNs): guidance
• Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging

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

• The waste prevention programme for Wales
  Policy and strategy
• Waste prevention programme: post adoption statement
  Policy and strategy
• Composition analysis of litter waste in Wales
  Report
• Management and disposal of higher activity radioactive waste
  Policy and strategy
• Options for extended producer responsibility: food and drink packaging waste
  Report
• Waste planning monitoring reports
  Collection
• Waste sector plan and waste prevention programme: summary report
  Report
• Fly-tipping strategy
  Policy and strategy
• The Waste (Prescribed Enactments) (Wales) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
• Beyond recycling: strategy and assessments
  Collection
• Circular economy package policy statement
  Policy and strategy
• Options to increase workplace recycling in Wales: regulatory impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Managing radioactive substances and decommissioning: policy framework
  Policy and strategy
• Workplace recycling regulations: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Towards zero waste: our waste strategy
  Collection
• Changes to workplace recycling: guidance for workplaces
  Policy and strategy
• Increasing recycling at workplaces: assessment of effects on competitiveness
  Report
• The Packaging Waste (Data Collection and Reporting) (Wales) Regulations 2023: explanatory memorandum
  Policy and strategy
• Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Evaluation of digital technology in a deposit return scheme: reports
  Report
• The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill impact assessments
  Collection
• Waste planning case studies
  Collection
• Municipal sector plan
  Collection
• Fixed penalty notice returns for environmental offences
  Collection