# Sanitary waste collection legal requirement (4 figures)

> The UK Sanitary Waste Duties carries 6 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 1 to 2 year, read 27 October 2026.

Sanitary waste collection · https://sanitarywastecollection.co.uk/datasets/uk-sanitary-waste-duties/ · computed 2026-10-28

**Range of the published figures:** 1 to 2 year (range 1.5 to 2 year; 4 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 27 October 2026.

## By jurisdiction

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| jurisdiction Scotland | 2 year | 2 to 2 year | 1 |
| jurisdiction England | 1.75 year | 1.5 to 2 year | 2 |
| jurisdiction Scotland-NI | 2 year | 2 to 2 year | 1 |

## 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 | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [The Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) (Scotland) Regulations 2014](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/4/made) | 2 year | Scotland | 2026-10-08 |
| [Waste duty of care: code of practice (accessible version)](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice) | 2 year | England | 2026-10-24 |
| [Offensive waste](https://www.netregs.org.uk/environmental-topics/waste/managing-waste-materials/offensive-waste/) | 2 year | Scotland-NI | 2026-10-24 |
| [Dispose of business or commercial waste: Waste transfer notes](https://www.gov.uk/managing-your-waste-an-overview/waste-transfer-notes) | 2 year | England | 2026-10-27 |
| [Dispose of business or commercial waste: Waste transfer notes](https://www.gov.uk/managing-your-waste-an-overview/waste-transfer-notes) | 2 year | England | 2026-10-27 |
| [Waste duty of care: code of practice (accessible version)](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice) | 1 year | England | 2026-10-24 |

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

- [The Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) (Scotland) Regulations 2014](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/4/made), read 2026-10-08: "The transferor and the transferee must keep the written description and the transfer note (or copies of them) for a period of two years from the date of transfer of the waste."
- [Waste duty of care: code of practice (accessible version)](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"
- [Offensive waste](https://www.netregs.org.uk/environmental-topics/waste/managing-waste-materials/offensive-waste/), read 2026-10-24: "You must keep copies of all waste transfer notes for two years."
- [Dispose of business or commercial waste: Waste transfer notes](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."
- [Dispose of business or commercial waste: Waste transfer notes](https://www.gov.uk/managing-your-waste-an-overview/waste-transfer-notes), read 2026-10-27: "You must keep your season ticket and schedule for 2 years after the last waste transfer."
- [Waste duty of care: code of practice (accessible version)](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice), read 2026-10-24: "The season ticket can last up to one year and be used for regular transfers of the same type of non-hazardous waste with the same carrier."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1993/37/made), read 2026-10-27: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Healthcare and related wastes: how to classify](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/healthcare-and-related-wastes-how-to-classify), read 2026-10-27: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/988/regulation/12), read 2026-10-27: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [The Controlled Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2012](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/811/schedule/1), read 2026-10-27: 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; 13 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; 15 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 per UK jurisdiction quoted from the instrument or the regulator with its effective date: the sanitary conveniences duty and the approved code's sanitary-dressings line, the waste classification (municipal offensive waste, EWC 20 01 99, non-hazardous), the producer's duty of care and the two-year transfer-note retention, the waste hierarchy declaration; the derived checklist of what a workplace must have and keep

## Sources

- [Workplace health, safety and welfare. Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Reg](https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/l24.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [How many toilets should a workplace have?](https://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/toilets.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3004/contents) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Welfare at work](https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg293.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3004/regulation/20) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1993/37/made) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Waste duty of care: code of practice (accessible version)](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)
- [Healthcare and related wastes: how to classify](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/healthcare-and-related-wastes-how-to-classify) (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)
- [Classify different types of waste: your legal responsibilities](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)
- [The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/988/contents) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Offensive waste](https://www.netregs.org.uk/environmental-topics/waste/managing-waste-materials/offensive-waste/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [The Controlled Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2012](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/811/schedule/1) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [The Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) (Scotland) Regulations 2014](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/4/made) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [NHS England » Health Technical Memorandum 07-01: Safe and sustainable management](https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/management-and-disposal-of-healthcare-waste-htm-07-01/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Simpler recycling: workplace recycling in England](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/simpler-recycling-workplace-recycling-in-england) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Dispose of business or commercial waste: Waste transfer notes](https://www.gov.uk/managing-your-waste-an-overview/waste-transfer-notes) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The UK Sanitary Waste Duties carries 6 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 1 to 2 year, read 27 October 2026.
- 4 of the 5 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 27 October 2026.
- UK Sanitary Waste Duties, jurisdiction Scotland: median 2 year across 1 source, read 27 October 2026.
- UK Sanitary Waste Duties, jurisdiction England: median 1.75 year across 2 sources, read 27 October 2026.
- UK Sanitary Waste Duties, jurisdiction Scotland-NI: median 2 year across 1 source, read 27 October 2026.

Cite as: "sanitarywastecollection.co.uk UK Sanitary Waste Duties", updated 2026-10-28, https://sanitarywastecollection.co.uk/datasets/uk-sanitary-waste-duties/.

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