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Corporate Waste Responsibility Bill [HL]

Volume 856: debated on Thursday 4 June 2026

First Reading

A Bill to require large companies to appoint a named director responsible for compliance with statutory waste duty of care obligations; to make such companies financially responsible for the clean-up and clearance of waste they have generated or controlled where that waste is mismanaged and the duty of care has not been discharged; and for connected purposes.

The Bill was introduced by Baroness Sheehan, read a first time and ordered to be printed.