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How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste in England.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
How to apply for environmental permit for an activity in England that could cause pollution, increase flood risk or affect land drainage.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended producer responsibility (EPR) packaging must collect and submit packaging data.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Understand which wipes will be banned, when plastic wet wipes can still be sold, and how the ban will be enforced.
If you put EEE on the UK market you must follow rules on both the EEE you sell and the EEE that becomes waste (WEEE).
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
Find out how to prepare written assessments to collect paper and card with other dry recyclables. Assessments will be required from March 2025 or March 2026, depending where you collect from.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
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