Legislation

IG Group, a leading supplier in the cleaning and hospitality sectors, is advising businesses on significant changes to UK waste management legislation, set to take effect on 31 March 2025 Under the new regulations, all businesses in England producing more ...

New EU legislation – the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the EU Green Claims Directive – is to tighten sustainability reporting and combat greenwashing. The purpose of the legislation is to enhance transparency, accountability and sustainability in business practices. ...

Fresh Start Waste Services, a leading waste management company committed to sustainability and innovative solutions, has launched a cutting-edge tool is designed to assist businesses in navigating upcoming legislative changes and optimising their recycling processes with ease. The ‘Simpler Recycling’ ...

Companies operating fleets of trucks, vans or buses run the risk of thousands of pounds worth of fines and their vehicles being ordered off the roads if they fail to keep on top of their cleaning and maintenance, warns leading ...

The UK Government will introduce new world-leading legislation to ban wet wipes containing plastic, as confirmed by the Environment Secretary. Defra intend to bring forward the legislation for England ahead of summer recess, with Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales following ...

CIWM (Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) has written to the UK Prime Minster, Rishi Sunak, calling on him to push ahead with “the comprehensive and forward-looking reforms on packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) and consistent collections that the Government introduced ...