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Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Unofficial list of waste description codes listed in annexes to the Waste Shipments Regulation.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
This page introduces Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) Waste Package Specifications (WPS) and Guidance for waste packages intended for geological disposal.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
Use this service to apply for yearly registration of PCB equipment with the Environment Agency.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
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