Best value information, inspection reports and performance indicator guidance

The BREW Centre is a pilot project funded through DEFRA’s Business Resource Efficiency and Waste Programme and is a consortium involving Oxfordshire County Council, the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme and the Local Goverment Association. The aim of the BREW Centre is to support Local Authorities working with their local business community to become more profitable businesses through minimised waste and more efficient use of materials, water and energy.

An innovative site dedicated to explaining what is going on with waste across London. Includes data, best practise, benchmarking data and a useful glossary of terms.

The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities is the representative voice of Scottish Local Government.

Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Recycling and waste news, legislation and information for local authorities.

Local Authority Support Website.

Defra have added this section on their website that lists key information on upcoming events and announcements, including consultations, conferences, speeches, funding and legislation.

Information on WEEE, ROHS, ELVs, Packaging and Hazardous Waste Directives.

Contains regulatory guidance on the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme.

Lots of information on waste management regulations - includes a thorough glossary.

New guidance to provide information on how to interpret the List of wastes (implementating the European Waste Catalogue) to help anyone producing, carrying or managing waste in England and Wales to code it correctly.  The guidance is part of the wider work being done by WIP in developing the waste data strategy Copies of a CD introducing the strategy and explaining the guidance issued with the June 2006 edition of the Journal. 

A guide the the international shipment of waste.

Gives the facts on how waste treatment technologies work, as well as how much they cost to build and maintain.

Environment Agency Wales is in a special position - it is an Assembly sponsored Public Body, while being part of the corporate Environment Agency for England and Wales

Information on introducing sustainability into the workplace.

This website shows comparative waste statistics for EU countries - shown on a per capita basis, the usual basis for international comparisons.

HSE waste and recycling guidance. This new website from CIWM E-news allows the HSE to inform those in the waste managment and recycling industry of issues that are being tackled by the HSE and inform those industries of health and safety.

Information and examples of best practise within local authorities.

This online resource at IdeA contains the details of a wide number of public sector networks and communities of practice. These can be defined as groups of individuals with common problems or interests, formed to provide assistance around a specific area of knowledge.

News, explanations, facts and figures about the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme. Contains links to Environmental Bodies.

Publications, responses to consultations and guidance for local authorities on waste management.

Environment Agency site to help small businesses to understand their environmental responsibilities. Updated to include a new waste directory that shows small businesses where to find licensed sites for recycling or disposing of their waste and info on legislation. Also to give guidance to those working in recycling of metal components, scrap metal, community groups, not-for profit orgs.

Contains the Waste Not Want Not report and background papers including public attitudes and waste analyses.

Established by DCLG & LGA in late 2003. Originally set up as Centres of Procurement Excellence to support LAs to deliver the milestones laid out in the National Procurement Strategy, but now their remit has widened to act as the lead change agents for local government efficiency. Each RCE has allocated funding to LAs for projects that will enable them to realise effficiences.

The devolved Government for Scotland

Welsh Assembly Government

The Welsh Local Government Association represents the interests of local government and promotes local democracy in Wales.

The objective of this project is to create one online reporting infrastucture leading to more accurate data collected more regularly and efficiently available for access on a timely basis.

The new website for the Waste Implementation Programme: Local Authority Support Unit

Waste & Resources Action Programme. Practical advice on recycling materials in the UK.

This new service has been designed to help those wanting to use quality compost made from recycled garden and kitchen waste find their nearest supplier quickly and easily.