Guidance and regulation

How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 13 January 2023

How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 2 May 2024

When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 February 2024

Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 February 2024

A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 14 May 2024

When your waste operation does not need a permit but you may need to register.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 10 May 2024

Technical guidance on how to assess and classify waste.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 28 September 2021

Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors (including retailers).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 11 December 2023

The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 10 May 2024

You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 22 January 2024

Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2024

How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 2 February 2022

What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 2 September 2019

This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 26 November 2018

The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 10 May 2024

How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 25 August 2023

Find out when you must charge a minimum of 10 pence for single-use carrier bags, bags you're not required to charge for and the records you must keep and submit.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 8 April 2024

When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 April 2024

How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 December 2022

The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 2 April 2024