Environmental Protection Act 1990 — United Kingdom law | Esheria

Environmental Protection Act 1990

This Part sets up controls on prescribed processes that may pollute the environment, including authorisations, conditions, enforcement powers, and duties on regulators.

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Jurisdiction
United Kingdom
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Language
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About this statute

This Part sets up controls on prescribed processes that may pollute the environment, including authorisations, conditions, enforcement powers, and duties on regulators. Local enforcing authorities must keep and publish specified registers, and the Secretary of State can direct exclusions or inclusions of information in those registers. This provision covers waste enforcement notices, fixed penalties, vehicle seizure powers, a food-waste discharge ban in Wales, waste-tracking rules, waste-management plans, and recycling/separate-collection duties. This provision gives waste authorities and Ministers powers and duties about waste separation, recycling guidance, notices, penalties, and appeals. This provision allocates waste-related payments, reporting duties, public-register duties, and enforcement powers for waste authorities, and it also creates offences for ignoring certain waste directions or prohibitions.