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Owners of second homes rented out for less than 140 days per year pay council tax and will continue to receive a normal waste collection.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The final results provide estimates of the amount of waste that businesses generate and how it is managed.
A new anti-littering message, 'Love Where You Live', announced after new statistics show that England's litter problem is not improving.
Guidance sets out requirements for new nuclear clean-up funds Waste disposal charging method provides certainty but no subsidy…
An anaerobic digestion framework document was today published by the Government.
The UK Government portal for transparency, data.gov.uk, gives the public and developers easy access to data from all levels of government.
Lord Henley’s keynote address to Green Alliance conference on the Eco Design Directive.
These results provide estimates of the amount of waste that businesses generate and how it is managed.
A consultation on proposals to replace or amend the Controlled Waste Regulations (1992) relating to certain non-domestic properties.
Defra today published final estimates from the Department’s survey of municipal waste in England.
UK packaging recycling targets for 2011 and 2012 have been published today.
Withdrawal of provisional allocation of PFI credits from projects that will now not be needed to meet the 2020 landfill diversion targets.
Councils across England brought nearly 2,500 prosecutions for fly-tipping in 2009-10, an increase of more than twenty per cent on the previous 12 months.
The UK will meet the 2010 Landfill Diversion Target to reduce biodegradable municipal waste to landfill.
Draft regulations have been published by the Government, paving the way for privately-owned sewers to be transferred to water and sewerage companies.
Working with businesses, the voluntary responsibility deals on waste will look to deliver changes that work for businesses and their customers.
Appendix 7 of stakeholder engagement document on revised proposals for a future exemptions regime under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 …
Provisional estimates from the Department’s survey of municipal waste in England.
The Government’s review of waste policies has been formally launched today.
Announcing the next series of reforms to Defra's network of arm's length bodies.
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