Duty of Care obligations not being met by too many businesses
A recent study for the Environmental Services Association (ESA) has found that nearly half of the SMEs surveyed were not fully compliant with duty of care requirements imposed by the Environment Protection Act, despite trying to manage their waste correctly. Earlier research had suggested that more than half of all businesses in the UK were in default. As part of the ‘Right Waste, Right Place’ campaign, the ESA comissioned a survey of more than 1000 UK businesses, but were not … Continued