UKuksi/1999/546Enacted

The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Jurisdiction:: United Kingdom
Type:: Incentives
Last action:: Jan 1, 1999

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Obligations under this law

·Waste disposal authorities must pay waste collection authorities amounts representing net savings on disposal of waste retained for recycling (per Environmental Protection Act 1990 s.52(1)); waste disposal authorities may pay equivalent amounts to persons other than waste collection authorities for waste collected for recycling (per s.52(3))

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Establishes financial incentive (recycling payments) to waste collection authorities for diverting waste from disposal to recycling, advancing circular economy via economic stimulus; enacted 1999.

Covered Products

·waste retained by collection authorities for recycling

Producer Obligations

·Waste disposal authorities must pay waste collection authorities amounts representing net savings on disposal of waste retained for recycling (per Environmental Protection Act 1990 s.52(1)); waste disposal authorities may pay equivalent amounts to persons other than waste collection authorities for waste collected for recycling (per s.52(3))

Key Deadlines

Apr 1, 1999compliance: Updated representative savings figures in the Schedule come into force

Fee Structure

Per Ton: Representative savings in waste disposal costs per tonne: London waste disposal authority covering inner London boroughs: £47.47/tonne; Council of an inner London borough or Common Council of the City of London: £47.47/tonne; London waste disposal authority comprising outer London boroughs: £41.39/tonne; Council of an outer London borough: £41.39/tonne; Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority: £34.13/tonne; Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority: £34.13/tonne; Council of a metropolitan district: £34.13/tonne; Any other waste disposal authority incurring transport costs in disposing of similar waste: £26.99/tonne; Any other waste disposal authority not incurring such transport costs: £18.37/tonne. Figures updated to account for rises in the retail price index.

Compliance Dimensions

Fees47.47 GBP Per Ton — Waste recycled in area of London WDA covering inner London boroughs / council of inner London borough / Common Council of City of London; 41.39 GBP Per Ton — Waste recycled in area of London WDA comprising outer London boroughs / council of outer London borough; 34.13 GBP Per Ton — Waste recycled in area of Greater Manchester WDA / Merseyside WDA / council of a metropolitan district

“Type of waste disposal authority Saving in waste disposal costs per tonne A London waste disposal authority for an area which includes an inner London borough. £47.47 The council of an inner London borough. The Common Council of the City of London. A London waste disposal authority which comprises outer London boroughs. £41.39 The council of an outer London borough. The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority. £34.13 The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority. The council of a metropolitan district. Any other waste disposal authority. £26.99 where the authority incurs any transport costs in disposing of similar waste and £18.37 in other cases.”

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Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

Amendment of regulations

For the Schedule to the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) Regulations 1992 substitute–

THE SCHEDULE

REPRESENTATIVE SAVINGS IN WASTE DISPOSAL COSTS

Regulation 2(5)

Type of waste disposal authority Saving in waste disposal costs per tonne
A London waste disposal authority for an area which includes an inner London borough. £47.47 The council of an inner London borough. The Common Council of the City of London. A London waste disposal authority which comprises outer London boroughs. £41.39 The council of an outer London borough. The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority. £34.13 The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority. The council of a metropolitan district. Any other waste disposal authority. £26.99 where the authority incurs any transport costs in disposing of similar waste and £18.37 in other cases.

Revocation

Regulation 2 of the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (which last substituted a new Schedule to the 1992 Regulations) is hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Alan Meale
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

1st March 1999

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office

3rd March 1999

Sewel
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office

2nd March 1999

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 52(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 requires waste disposal authorities to pay waste collection authorities amounts representing their net savings on the disposal of waste retained by collection authorities for recycling.

Section 52(3) of that Act confers a power on waste disposal authorities to pay persons other than waste collection authorities equivalent amounts for waste collected by them for recycling.

The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) Regulations 1992 made provision for the determination of a waste disposal authority’s net saving of expenditure for the purposes of section 52(1) or (3) of that Act in relation to such waste. The Schedule to those Regulations provides figures for determining a waste disposal authority’s net saving of expenditure where this could not otherwise be determined because sufficient accurate information was not available, or could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. These Regulations increase those figures to take account of rises in the retail price index.

1990 c. 43 .

S.I. 1992/462 ; the Schedule was substituted by S.I. 1998/607 .

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