Guidance

Low risk waste position: food from retailers and producers, including former foodstuffs

The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.

From:
Environment Agency
Published
20 August 2019
Last updated
22 August 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Collecting and storing food waste: LRWP 84

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If the Environment Agency provides a LRWP for an activity, you can carry it out without an environmental permit for a waste operation provided that you meet all the conditions.

The Environment Agency may review its LRWPs. It may decide the activity is no longer suitable for a LRWP or that the conditions need changing. You must regularly check that LRWP you are benefiting from is still in place.

We have withdrawn ‘Storing and compacting waste coffee grounds to produce a briquette: LRWP 45’ and replaced it with ‘Storing and compacting waste coffee grounds: RPS 306’.

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Published 20 August 2019
Last updated 22 August 2024 + show all updates

  1. We have withdrawn 'Storing and compacting waste coffee grounds to produce a briquette: LRWP 45' and replaced it with 'Storing and compacting waste coffee grounds: RPS 306'.

  2. Added a new low risk waste position (LRWP) - Collecting and storing food waste: LRWP 84.

  3. First published.

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