Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has issued guidance to allow residents to utilise a neighbouring local authority's refuse and recycling sites when they are the nearest facility for a household.

I have not issued any guidance on this subject. However, the law governing the provision of places to deposit waste from households is set out in Section 51 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, which requires waste disposal authorities to provide places for persons resident in its area to deposit household waste. Each place must be situated in the area of the authority or so that it is reasonably accessible to people resident in its area.

Waste disposal authorities may include arrangements for the deposit of household waste for people outside of their area but they are able to charge for this.