“Future of regulation Upstream Intervention” · A national database of registered waste brokers to make it harder for unscrupulous operators to do businesses. Fixed penalty notices

“Future of regulation-

Upstream Intervention”

Pandora Rene

Senior Advisor Waste Strategy

May 20198 2019

Key influences for future change25 Year Environment Plan

• This lays out governments long term environmental objectives

Circular Economy Package• Revisits producer responsibility, waste classification, separate

collection, definition of waste, and end of waste and other

regulatory direction

• Lays out the structure to promote reuse, recovery and recycling to

retain materials within the economy and eliminate waste

Resources and Waste Strategy• Covers sustainable production, resources and waste management,

cutting down food waste and crucially in Chapter 4 tackling waste

crime

What has been going on to tackle

waste crime ?

Waste Crime Review (The Noel review)

Key Recommendations

A Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC) hosted by the Environment Agency with the Police, Crime Commissioners, HMRC and waste industry representatives working together to tackle the most serious cases.

Compulsory electronic tracking of waste to help clamp-down on illegal movements of waste at home and abroad.

A national database of registered waste brokers to make it harder for unscrupulous operators to do businesses.

Fixed penalty notices to crack down on rogue operators who mis-label waste to avoid paying the correct amount of landfill tax.

Financial penalties for producers if their waste is found to be deposited illegally.

Regulatory Effectiveness

Some Key outcomes 2017/18812 illegal waste sites were shutdown in 2017/18 - more than 2 a day.

Serious pollution incidents fell to 419, down 18% compared to 2016.

The number of persistently poorly managed sites reduced by 18% compared to 2016.

Environmental charities, organisations and projects received almost £2.2 million in Enforcement Undertakings(compared to £0.9 million in 2016).

The Past

The Present

The Future

What next for waste regulation?

What we regulate

Production not

destruction

Materials not waste

Whole life cycle not end

of life

How we regulate

Upstream not site

Collaboration not

conflict

Outcome not process

focus

Holistically not silo

Production not Destruction

Developing products which take into account the recovery of all the components

Using materials within a closed loop framework

Focus on minimal use of dangerous and not recyclable materials

Build in end of life plans which maximise reuse/recovery of individual elements

Design out waste

Materials not Waste

Revisit legislative controls to promote maximum retention of materials within the economy

Promote use of recovered materials in new products

Promote non carbon depleting energy sources

Encourage and support markets for pre used goods and materials (where that has environmental benefit)

Whole Life Cycle not End of Life

Ensure legislation is directed at the best point to influence the fate of a product

Influence decision making at the planning stage both for goods and for development of infrastructure

Support incentives to develop and reuse land

Upstream Intervention not just Site

based

Focus on the producers

Extended PR

Intervene at the decision point

Focus producers on interpretation of the Waste Hierarchy

Raise the bar to entry

Carrier/Broker/Dealer

Reduce contamination of recyclates

Promote separation at source

Review of Separate Collection

Carrier/Broker/Dealer

Current

Multiple registrations

No competence

required

Unequal charging

levels

No conditions to

registration

No submission of waste

returns

Future

Separate

registration/permit

Tiered charging and

competence

Mandatory electronic

tracking

Conditions to

registration/permit

Waste returns

Collaboration not Conflict

Work with industry, Defra, BiS, WRAP and other to develop relevant legislation and guidance

Food waste

Work with manufacturers to promote low waste solutions

Promote and support low emission value recovering technologies

Outcome not process focussed

Reduce legislative burden where it serves no environmental reason

Understand and work to help resolve market pressures where they impact on overall environmental outcome

Prevent “waste” becoming an environmental burden by reducing criminal opportunity not just chasing the crime

Tracking from product to product

Holistically not Silo

Truly Holistic encompassing all impacts and risks

Stop thinking waste!!!!

Regulation of the whole environment not just “our bit”

Increase Natural Capital

Leave our planet better than we found it