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Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
How to dispose of household waste legally. Check your council’s website for bin collection, bulky waste collection. What you must do if using private companies
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
We work with organisations across the UK that produce radioactive waste.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Guidance for designated collection facilities (DCF) and charities on how to comply with WEEE and waste regulations.
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.
Setting out the progress being made on the GovTech waste tracking challenge, to build the UK's first comprehensive digital waste tracking system.
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
Frameworks which explain how to achieve end of waste status for certain waste derived materials.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste onto the track.
How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
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