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How and when you can seize a vehicle to investigate a waste crime.
When you must report the amount of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) you place on the market and how to do it.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
How to report a business or organisation that is not separating or collecting recyclable waste in line with the Simpler Recycling rules.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land spreading and deployment form.
This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits from February 2026
The safe, secure, and long-term solution for the most hazardous radioactive waste in the UK.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
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