What UK Environmental Protection Act 1990: Waste Duty of Care, Contaminated Land and Statutory Nuisance requires
The Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43) is a foundational UK environmental statute. Part II governs waste on land: section 33 makes it an offence to deposit, treat, keep or dispose of controlled waste without, or otherwise than in accordance with, an environmental permit, or in a manner likely to cause pollution of the environment or harm to human health; section 34 imposes the waste 'duty of care' on any person who imports, produces, carries, keeps, treats or disposes of controlled waste, requiring them to prevent its escape, transfer it only to authorised persons, and ensure a written description accompanies it (the waste transfer note system); sections 35-36 govern waste management licences (now largely the environmental permitting regime), and section 75 defines 'waste' and the categories of household, commercial, industrial and hazardous waste. Part IIA addresses contaminated land: local authorities must identify contaminated land (section 78B), special sites are designated (section 78C), and enforcing authorities serve remediation notices requiring clean-up by the appropriate person, applying the polluter-pays principle (section 78E). Part III deals with statutory nuisances: section 79 lists the categories (including premises, smoke, fumes, gases, dust, effluvia, noise and accumulations prejudicial to health or a nuisance) and requires local authorities to inspect their areas; section 80 requires the service of an abatement notice where a statutory nuisance exists or is likely to occur or recur, and makes it an offence, without reasonable excuse, to contravene the notice. Part IV creates the offence of leaving litter (section 87). Offences under section 33 are punishable, on summary conviction, by imprisonment and/or a fine and, on conviction on indictment, by imprisonment (up to five years for certain hazardous-waste offences) and/or an unlimited fine; contravening an abatement notice under section 80 is punishable by a fine, with a higher maximum where the offence is committed on industrial, trade or business premises, plus a daily default fine.
Pillar: Water & Environmental Resources · Authority: UK Parliament / Environment Agency and local authorities · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/contents
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- Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43), Section 33 - offence of unauthorised or harmful deposit, treatment, keeping or disposal of controlled waste.
- Environmental Protection Act 1990, Section 34 - the waste duty of care, including prevention of escape, transfer only to authorised persons, and the written description / waste transfer note requirement.
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