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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.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
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.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
How to separate, store, transport and dispose of international catering waste (ICW).
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
This guidance is for any business or public body which generates, handles or treats waste.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for digestate produced from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
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