The `Duty of Care' was introduced under the Environment Protection Act 1990 (section 34) and applies to any one who imports, produces, carries, keeps, treats or disposes of waste.
 

Essentially it means that you, as a waste producer, have a duty to take all reasonable and applicable measures: (a) to prevent anybody, whom you may or may not know, from illegally treating, keeping, depositing or otherwise disposing of the waste (b) to prevent the escape of waste (c) to ensure that transfer of the waste only occurs to an authorised person and that the transfer is accompanied by a written description of the waste As your waste broker, Eco Technology Limited implicitly shares your Duty of Care, and as such it is in our interest to ensure that we always remove your waste via suitably licensed Waste Carriers, to suitably licensed transfer, treatment, disposal or recycling facilities. We even take care of the necessary waste transfer paperwork for you, including associated labels and Consignor's Declarations required for dangerous goods.

To assist your record keeping, and to help with any internal or external audits, we provide our customers with a Duty of Care audit pack summarising waste movements in a tabulated format, with copies of all the relevant licences, and site audits that we have conducted on your behalf, on the relevant facilities.

For total site waste management packages we provide monthly summaries of all the waste movements in spreadsheet format, (including weights, volumes, EWC codes etc) which allows analysis and importing in to any electronic EMS.

Contact our team for more information or to request a free copy of theGuidance Notes for the Duty of Care