This Act focuses on managing and reducing environmental pollution through comprehensive regulation. It introduces key measures for controlling waste management, including the 'Duty of Care' for waste, ensuring that individuals and businesses responsibly manage and dispose of waste to prevent environmental harm. The Act establishes frameworks for addressing air and water pollution and mandates local authorities to enforce litter control. Significant for its pioneering approach to integrated pollution control (IPC), it consolidated various anti-pollution provisions and introduced stringent penalties to reform environmental governance, reflecting growing environmental concerns in society and government policy at the time.
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TAKE A FREE TRIALThis Act focuses on managing and reducing environmental pollution through comprehensive regulation. It introduces key measures for controlling waste management, including the 'Duty of Care' for waste, ensuring that individuals and businesses responsibly manage and dispose of waste to prevent environmental harm. The Act establishes frameworks for addressing air and water pollution and mandates local authorities to enforce litter control. Significant for its pioneering approach to integrated pollution control (IPC), it consolidated various anti-pollution provisions and introduced stringent penalties to reform environmental governance, reflecting growing environmental concerns in society and government policy at the time.
LexisNexis traffic light system shows the status of legislation and cases so you are always using up-to-date law while historical versioning and legislative timelines lets you see exactly what has changed in legislation over time.
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