The duty of care is the legal responsibility, under section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, of anyone who produces, keeps or carries controlled waste: store it safely, hand it only to a registered carrier or permitted site, describe it on a waste transfer note, and keep the note for two years.
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
- Residual waste
- List of Waste code
- Controlled waste
- Upper tier waste carrier
- Pre-paid sack
- Section 34
- Annual waste transfer note
- All terms