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How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
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).
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended producer responsibility (EPR) packaging must collect and submit packaging data.
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).
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
Guidance from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
Understand which wipes will be banned, when plastic wet wipes can still be sold, and how the ban will be enforced.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
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.
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.
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.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
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