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 ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other prominent environmental organizations like the U.N. Environment Programme use a framework called the waste management hierarchy that ranks ...

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 ...