Data on the number of HWRCs accepting trade waste and tonnage data
There is little information available about the number of HWRCs that legitimately accept waste from trade sources. The most recent surveys into this issue were conducted during the Trade Waste input to Civic Amenity Sites project (2001) and the National Assessment of Civic Amenity Sites (2002). The surveys revealed that In England, 10 out of 120 authorities accepted (and charged for) trade waste at their HWRCs. This corresponds to about 48 HWRCs.
The BREW Centre for Local Authorities conducts six-monthly surveys of local authority trade waste activity. The most recent survey, in September 2007 revealed that 43 out of 395 local authorities provide bring facilities to traders (although there is a loose definition of what "bring" is in this survey, so it could refer to HWRCs, trade bring sites, transfer stations etc).
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