Controlled waste is the legal term for household, commercial and industrial waste together, as defined in section 75 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Examples: office rubbish, shop packaging, restaurant food waste, builders' rubble, a home's black bin. The duty of care applies to all of it.
Defined in the Commercial Waste Glossary.
Other terms
- Fly-tipping
- Waste carrier licence
- SIC code
- Dry mixed recycling
- WEEE
- Anaerobic digestion
- Waste transfer note
- EWC codes
- Waste hierarchy
- Transfer station
- General waste
- Digital waste tracking
- Energy from waste
- Simpler Recycling
- Landfill tax
- POPs
- Commercial waste
- Wait and load
- Trade waste
- Hazardous waste consignment note
- Materials recovery facility
- Duty of care
- Residual waste
- List of Waste code
- Upper tier waste carrier
- Pre-paid sack
- Section 34
- Annual waste transfer note
- All terms