# UK Construction Waste Duties

> The UK Construction Waste Duties carries 4 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 2 to 3 year, read 28 October 2026.

Construction waste removal · https://constructionwasteremoval.co.uk/datasets/uk-construction-waste-duties/ · computed 2026-10-28

**Range of the published figures:** 2 to 3 year (range 2 to 3 year; 3 published figures; 4 of 5 sources read publish one).

4 of the 5 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 28 October 2026.

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| [Landfill Tax: increase in rates from 1 April 2026 - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/landfill-tax-rates-for-2026-to-2027/landfill-tax-increase-in-rates-from-1-april-2026) | 130.75 GBP | 2026-10-24 |
| [Landfill Tax: increase in rates from 1 April 2026 - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/landfill-tax-rates-for-2026-to-2027/landfill-tax-increase-in-rates-from-1-april-2026) | 8.65 GBP | 2026-10-24 |
| [Waste duty of care: code of practice (accessible version) - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice) | 3 year | 2026-10-24 |
| [U1: using waste in construction - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/waste-exemption-u1-use-of-waste-in-construction) | 3 year | 2026-10-28 |
| [Waste duty of care: code of practice (accessible version) - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice) | 2 year | 2026-10-24 |
| [Dispose of business or commercial waste: Waste transfer notes - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/managing-your-waste-an-overview/waste-transfer-notes) | 2 year | 2026-10-27 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (6)

- [Landfill Tax: increase in rates from 1 April 2026 - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/landfill-tax-rates-for-2026-to-2027/landfill-tax-increase-in-rates-from-1-april-2026), read 2026-10-24: "Standard rated £126.15 tonne £130.75 tonne"
- [Landfill Tax: increase in rates from 1 April 2026 - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/landfill-tax-rates-for-2026-to-2027/landfill-tax-increase-in-rates-from-1-april-2026), read 2026-10-24: "Lower rated £4.05 tonne £8.65 tonne"
- [Waste duty of care: code of practice (accessible version) - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice), read 2026-10-24: "three years for hazardous waste consignment notes (different retention periods apply for consignees (receivers) of hazardous waste; see further detail in the hazardous waste guidance)"
- [U1: using waste in construction - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/waste-exemption-u1-use-of-waste-in-construction), read 2026-10-28: "The exemption is valid for 3 years from the date you register it."
- [Waste duty of care: code of practice (accessible version) - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice), read 2026-10-24: "2 years for non-hazardous waste"
- [Dispose of business or commercial waste: Waste transfer notes - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/managing-your-waste-an-overview/waste-transfer-notes), read 2026-10-27: "Keep a paper or electronic copy for 2 years."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [Highways Act 1980](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/139), read 2026-10-28: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [U1: using waste in construction - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/waste-exemptions-using-waste), read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Duty of Care, Construction / Demolition Waste and Recycled Aggregate \| Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural](https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/duty-care-construction-demolition-waste-and-recycled-aggregate), read 2026-10-28: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Asbestos - HSE](https://www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/), read 2026-10-28: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 4 of the 5 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 4 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 7 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in year (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 28 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per duty, quoted from the instrument or regulator with its effective date: the duty of care (Environmental Protection Act 1990 s34) and its code of practice, the transfer note, the hierarchy declaration (reg 12 of the Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011), the waste exemptions a site may register (U1 use of waste in construction, T7 crushing bricks, tiles and concrete), the landfill tax standard and lower (inert) rates from 1 April 2026, the permission duty for a skip on the highway (Highways Act 1980 s139), and asbestos as hazardous waste

## Sources

- [Waste duty of care: code of practice (accessible version) - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Environmental Protection Act 1990](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/section/34) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Landfill Tax: increase in rates from 1 April 2026 - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/landfill-tax-rates-for-2026-to-2027/landfill-tax-increase-in-rates-from-1-april-2026) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Classify different types of waste: your legal responsibilities - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/how-to-classify-different-types-of-waste) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/988/regulation/12) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Dispose of business or commercial waste: Waste transfer notes - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/managing-your-waste-an-overview/waste-transfer-notes) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [U1: using waste in construction - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/waste-exemption-u1-use-of-waste-in-construction) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Highways Act 1980](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/139) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [U1: using waste in construction - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/waste-exemptions-using-waste) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Duty of Care, Construction / Demolition Waste and Recycled Aggregate \| Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural](https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/duty-care-construction-demolition-waste-and-recycled-aggregate) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Asbestos - HSE](https://www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [legislation.gov.uk](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The UK Construction Waste Duties carries 4 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 2 to 3 year, read 28 October 2026.
- 4 of the 5 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 28 October 2026.

Cite as: "constructionwasteremoval.co.uk UK Construction Waste Duties", updated 2026-10-28, https://constructionwasteremoval.co.uk/datasets/uk-construction-waste-duties/.

CSV: https://constructionwasteremoval.co.uk/datasets/uk-construction-waste-duties.csv
JSON: https://constructionwasteremoval.co.uk/datasets/uk-construction-waste-duties.json
Embed (plain HTML, static link back): see https://constructionwasteremoval.co.uk/datasets/uk-construction-waste-duties/#median