What is controlled waste?

Controlled waste is the legal term for household, industrial and commercial waste together, from section 75 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, and it is the waste the duty of care applies to. Examples: a home's black bin and recycling, a shop's packaging, an office's paper and food waste, a restaurant's bins, a builder's rubble and offcuts, a factory's process waste. What is not controlled waste: most agricultural waste on the farm it came from, mine and quarry waste, radioactive waste and sewage, which have rules of their own. If what you have is controlled waste, you need a registered carrier, a transfer note for each load, and a permitted site at the end of it.