§ The Minister for the Environment (Mr. Michael Meacher)The Duty of Care Regulations 1991 have been amended to give waste collection authorities (WCAs) the power to serve notices on businesses, requiring them to furnish the WCA with their duty of care records. This will help WCA officers to check whether businesses are transferring their waste in accordance with the law. Businesses that do not have such arrangements could be prosecuted.
This measure should help to reduce the level of commercial and industrial waste that is fly tipped. It will also assist waste collection authorities in pursuing fly tipping offences as, in some circumstances, it will be possible for the fly tipped waste to be traced back to the originator of the waste.
The Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 came into force on 20 February.