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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR): AVA member’s guide – August 2023
Disability Act 1995 & Equality Act 2010
Brexit
Vending – lower sugar, salt, fat and calorie products
Vending in hospitals
The Modern Slavery Act 2015
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June 2024: Rethinking Our Resources: Measures for Climate Action and a Circular Economy in Northern Ireland
May 2024: Scotland – Restricting promotions of food and drink high in fat, sugar or salt
March 2024: Scotland’s Circular Economy and Waste – A Route Map to 2030
March 2024: Defra Consultation & Call for Evidence on reforming the producer responsibility system for [household] waste electrical and electronic equipment.
October 2023: Defra Consultation on the draft Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations- 2024
September 2023: Consultation on the contents of the Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill
February 2023: Consultation on the Separate Collection of Waste Materials for Recycling: A Code of Practice for Wales
November 2022: Ireland Single Use Cup Levy consultation
September 2022: Input and comment on the ‘Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill’
September 2022: Wales – Proposal to end the sale of energy drinks to children under 16
August 2022: Scotland Circular Economy consultations
April 2022: Mandatory Calorie Labelling
April 2022: Scotland Single-Use Containers
December 2019: Irish Environment Fund Consultation
November 2019: Ireland: Single Use Disposable Cup Levy
August 2018: DHSC: Energy Drinks Consultation
March 2018: HM Treasury Cash And Digital Payments – AVA Response
Defra Single Use Plastics consultations Feb-22
Defra consultation: consistency in household and business recycling in england – June 2021
Defra consultations: deposit return scheme and extended producer responsibility
Consultation: introducing market restrictions on single-use plastic items in scotland
Draft ecodesign and energy labelling regulations
Welsh government consultation: reducing single use plastics
Zero waste scotland – deposit return scheme – AVA response
Deposit return scheme for scotland
Developing scotland’s circular economy
Wales circular economy strategy
Wales: beyond recycling consultation
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Defra Single Use Plastics consultations Nov-21
Consultation documents:
Consultation on proposals to ban commonly littered single-use plastic items in England:
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/environmental-quality/consultation-on-proposals-to-ban-commonly-littered/supporting_documents/Consultation%20document.pdf
AVA Response –
Defra Consultation SUP – AVA response 12 Feb 2022
Call for evidence on commonly littered and problematic plastic items:
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/environmental-quality/call-for-evidence-on-commonly-littered-and-problem/supporting_documents/Call%20for%20evidence%20document.pdf
AVA Response –
Defra Problem Litter – AVA Response 12 Feb 2022