The Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme, LATS, is an initiative by the UK government, through DEFRA to help reduce the amount of biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) sent to landfill.
Each waste disposal authority is able to determine how to use its allocation of allowances in the most effective way.
In its first year, 2005/6, the total tonnage of biodegradable waste that could be landfilled in England was 15,196,000.
[4] Although it was deemed "a major driver of rapid landfill diversion and recycling rates" by the European Union, after 2010 the landfill tax had a greater effect in waste disposal.
[5] London's Western Riverside Waste Authority has declared that LATS guidance is flawed.