The waste hierarchy is the order of preference the law requires businesses to apply when they deal with waste: prevent it, then reuse, then recycle, then recover energy from it, and only then dispose of it in landfill. It comes from the Waste Framework Directive, and a transfer note includes a declaration that it was applied.
Defined in the Commercial Waste Glossary.
Related: Waste Transfer Note.
Other terms
- Fly-tipping
- Waste carrier licence
- SIC code
- Dry mixed recycling
- WEEE
- Anaerobic digestion
- Waste transfer note
- EWC codes
- 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
- Controlled waste
- Upper tier waste carrier
- Pre-paid sack
- Section 34
- Annual waste transfer note
- All terms