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2024

23.05.2024 NEW Essential that recycling and waste industry engages with “seismic” ETS consultation

22.05.2024 NEW ESA publishes updated biodiversity best practice guide for waste sector

12.02.2024 Biodiversity Net Gain rules come into force for recycling and waste treatment development

2023

24.11.2023 New Chairman for Environmental Services Association

27.09.2023 ESA clarifies position on RDF exports in ETS Strategy

27.09.2023 Nature Positive Toolkit to help recycling and waste managers support biodiversity 

14.09.2023 ESA sets out strategy for successful application of Emissions Trading Scheme to energy recovery

19.07.2023  ESA publishes “policy scorecard” to track recycling and waste decarbonisation progress

06.07.2023  Open letter to incoming EA Chair Philip Duffy regarding waste crime inactivity

03.07.2023 EfW inclusion in ETS marks significant policy intervention for the recycling and waste sector

21.06.2023 National poll shows public lack confidence about how to safely dispose of flammable or explosive items 

01.03.2023 ESA members set out “mission statement” in new Social Value Charter

23.02.2023 Report raises warnings about commercial waste service “zoning”

08.02.2023 SESA report quantifies Scottish Recycling and Waste Sector carbon emissions 

17.01.2023  Letter to the Editor of the New Statesman regarding one-sided and misleading article about Energy from Waste

2022

15.12.2022 ESA launches Best Practice Guide for biodiversity 

14.11.2022  Survey results write sector a clean bill of health and safety

24.10.2022 Public urged to help avoid “zombie battery” fires as incident rate rises

19.10.2022 ESA responds to "damning" Public Accounts Committee inquiry on waste crime 

29.09.2022 Trade associations set quality standard for recycled plastic

22.09.2022 Take Charge Phase 2 | Supporter Update - September 2022

13.09.2022 Resources and waste workers urged to help measure sector’s health and safety culture

08.09.2022 HRH Her Majesty The Queen - Statement issued on behalf of the Environmental Services Association - condolences

30.06.2022  Private and public sector associations voice concern over RWS implementation pressures (Letter can be found here) 

10.05.2022 Scottish incineration review offers “balanced perspective on EfW ”

27.04.2022 Audit office report illustrates why waste sector is “soft target” for criminals

10.03.2022 Turning up the heat on Energy from Waste

2021

15.12.2021 APPG call for caution over EfW is 'unnecessary and misleading'

25.11.2021 ESA publishes Annual Report for 2020/2021

02.08.2021 Joint open letter to SoS regarding HGV driver shortages in the waste industry

22.07.2021 Waste crime costs England nearly a billion pounds a year

13.07.2021 Planning system reforms must support UK’s “green recovery”

01.01.2021 Waste & recycling sector unites to tackle modern slavery 

30.06.2021 Recycling and waste management sector to invest £10bn to drive net zero by
2040 in huge opportunity to accelerate decarbonisation for the UK

16.06.2021 Prime Ministers task force supports ESA recommendations for risk-based regulation 

02.06.2021 Time for a re-think over complex EPR business waste proposals

16.04.2021 ESA: Extend response deadline for EPR & DRS following consistency delay 

24.03.2021 ESA welcome DRS & EPR consultations but question delay in Consistency

09.03.2021 Dispatches - Focus on energy recovery ignores the bigger picture

ESA has produced a supporting FAQ document around recovering Energy from Waste alongside the above release

24.02.2021 Rise in fly-tipping signals need for tougher enforcement

13.01.2021 ESA responds to Westminster Hall “incineration” debate

 

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