Guidance and regulation

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

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

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

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

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 25 August 2023

How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 December 2022

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

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 April 2024

Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 26 April 2024

What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 29 June 2023

This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 August 2023

What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 11 January 2021

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.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 December 2022

Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 October 2020

Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 20 March 2023

Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 2 February 2024

Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste glass containing other non-hazardous wastes.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 21 May 2024

How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 17 January 2024

How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 1 February 2016

The U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 20 July 2022

Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can treat and dispose of invasive non-native plant material without an environmental permit.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 August 2023

How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 23 May 2024