Waste duty of care for organisations

If you produce, import, carry, keep, treat or dispose of waste you have legal responsibilities for this waste. This is known as your duty of care.

Waste producers

A waste producer is the person, or organisation, whose activity creates the waste. This is regardless of whether they have been instructed by somebody else or not. If a person creates waste as an employee, their employer is the waste producer. If a person creates the waste as a contractor or sub-contractor, they are the waste producer.

Rules you must follow

By making sure that waste is handled safely and only passed to people authorised to receive it, we can protect the environment and human health.

Waste Duty of Care Code of Practice

Read more about meeting the requirements in the Waste Duty of Care Code of Practice.

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