DEFINITION: The Waste Framework Directive made compliance with the waste hierarchy a mandatory requirement. The most important priority in the hierarchy is preventing waste. Businesses that import or ...

Harnessing the power of gaming to change the way we think about plastic waste is the focus of a new project by a team of scientists from the ...

The University manages waste in accordance with the waste hierarchy, which ranks waste management options according to what is best for the environment. In practice, we try to prevent generating waste ...

We manage our waste as sustainably as possible according to Defra's Waste Hierarchy (PDF, 306kB). Where we can’t reuse or recycle, we use offsite recovery and energy generation technologies, meaning ...

We were particularly happy to see a renewed focus on the waste hierarchy, which prioritises measures to reduce, reuse and repair devices before moving to recycling, which currently isn’t optimised for ...

Greenpeace assesses that the approach which still focuses on technology and waste management downstream has not been able to ...