Consultation outcome

Preventing ‘backdoor’ charging at household waste recycling centres

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
• Published: 22 January 2015
• Last updated: 4 March 2015 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

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Preventing ‘backdoor’ charging at household waste recycling centres: government’s response to consultation

Ref: ISBN 978-1-4098-4506-5

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Detail of outcome

This document provides a summary of the responses received to the discussion paper seeking views around charging at household waste recycling centres.

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Original consultation

Summary

We are inviting views on how household waste recycling centres can stay open without councils charging residents for disposal.

This consultation ran from
22 January 2015 to 11:45pm on 18 February 2015

Consultation description

This discussion paper invites views on how household waste recycling centres at risk of closure can stay open, without local authorities resorting to charging their residents to dispose of household waste and recycling.

Long-standing legislation from the Civic Amenities Act 1967 to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 has required local authorities to provide free-to-use household waste recycling centres (‘civic amenity sites’; ‘tips’; or ‘dumps’) for their residents to dispose of household rubbish and recycling. The government’s 2011 waste review upheld this principle.

The government is aware that some local authorities have introduced, or plan to introduce, a charge to anybody accessing certain household waste recycling centres to dispose of household waste and/or household recycling.

The government is also concerned these charges will inconvenience residents; increase fly-tipping and back-yard burning; and make recycling harder for people rather than its stated objective of making it easier. The government believes that residents should continue to have free access to household waste recycling centres in their local authority area.

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Preventing ‘backdoor’ charging at household waste recycling centres

Ref: ISBN 9781409843191

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Published 22 January 2015
Last updated 4 March 2015 + show all updates

1. 4 March 2015

   The government's response to the consultation has been added

2. 22 January 2015

   First published.