Members save time and resources and encourage and promote best industrial waste management practice.

Regular members meetings provide a forum for information exchange and include regular updates by environmental legal experts, presentations by guest speakers and technical seminars on subjects of interest to the members.

Members have access to Environment Agency licensing information on UK waste management facilities via a secure login area on the WFAA web site.

Members can share and access waste management and other related environmental and management on-line training through the Association's e-learning programmes.

The WFAA provides a number of membership categories in order to meet the different services required by large international companies, small medium sized enterprises, trade associations and professional bodies. Details on the range services and cost of membership can be found by clicking on the appropriate link below:

• Full Member (major organisations)
• Affiliate Member (profession bodies and trade associations)
• Associate Member (small medium sized organisations)

In addition the WFAA operates an optional three-year core audit rolling audit programme, which provides each participating member with a minimum of 10 audit reports per year at an annual cost of £1,600. The waste facilities included within the rolling audit programme are reviewed and agreed with the members each year.

Members may commission additional waste facility audits at a cost of £2,000 shared between the participating members or on a sole sponsorship basis.

All costs quoted are inclusive of expenses and exclude local taxes.

Full Membership

Services include:

• Voting rights
• Participation in all the WFAA waste facility audit programmes
• Access to the UK Environment Agency Regis waste site licensing data
• Participation in the Association’s on–line e learning training development programmes
• Initial legal advice from the Associations legal advisors
• Attendance at the WFAA regular members meetings and technical seminars including updates on legislative developments
• Networking with the other member organisations

Cost of Full annual membership £1,200

The WFAA membership year operates between the 1 April and the 31 March. Fees for new members joining after the 1 April are pro-rated quarterly. (e.g. a new member joining in July would pay ¾ of the annual fee).

Click here for an on line application form

Affiliate Membership

Services include:

Access to the UK Environment Agency Regis waste site licensing data

Participation in the Association’s on–line e learning training development programmes

Attendance at the WFAA regular members meetings and technical seminars including updates on legislative developments

Networking with the other member organisations

Cost of Affiliate annual membership £150

The WFAA membership year operates between the 1 April and the 31 March. Fees for new members joining after the 1 April are pro-rated quarterly. (e.g. a new member joining in July would pay ¾ of the annual fee).

Click here for an on line application form

Associate Membership

Services include:

Voting rights

Participation in all the WFAA waste facility audit programmes

Access to the UK Environment Agency Regis waste site licensing data

Participation in the Association’s on–line e learning training development programmes

Initial legal advice from the Associations legal advisors

Attendance at the WFAA quarterly members meetings and technical seminars including updates on legislative developments

Networking with the other member organisations

Cost of Associate annual membership £600

The WFAA membership year operates between the 1 April and the 31 March. Fees for new members joining after the 1 April are pro-rated quarterly. (e.g. a new member joining in July would pay ¾ of the annual fee).

Click here for an on line application form