We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
This code of practice outlines what a court of law might consider as applicable to different types of land.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended producer responsibility (EPR) packaging must collect and submit packaging data.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
U10 exemption lets you spread certain wastes on agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
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.
T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
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.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).