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Waste Disposal: Small Businesses

Commons · Question 72681 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 9 Sep 2025

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Asked by James MacCleary

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take legislative steps to ensure that all small (a) businesses and (b) charities can have commercial waste collection under the new Simpler Recycling legislation, allowing f

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Answered by Mary Creagh, 9 Sep 2025

We can confirm that all small businesses and charities are in scope of Simpler Recycling. The Simpler Recycling legislation does not specify the type of vehicles that must be used for collection, provided they comply with existing standards on waste vehic...