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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
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
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
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
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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