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Government will make it easier for people and businesses to reuse and recycle their old electrical goods
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.
Find out if relief is available for goods using Temporary Admission and if your goods require you to be established inside or outside the UK.
OPSS is warning consumers about certain magnetic reusable water balloons that can present a risk of death or serious injury if two or more magnets are ingested
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
OPSS has issued a Product Safety Alert for magnetic reusable water balloons, which present a risk of severe injury or death if two or more magnets are ingested (swallowed). Consumers, local authority trading standards and businesses are asked to take...
Publish your code and use open source to improve transparency, flexibility and accountability.
Guidance for designated collection facilities (DCF) and charities on how to comply with WEEE and waste regulations.
When you can treat waste plastic using heat without an environmental permit.
Check when packaging is classified as a finished plastic packaging component, and what is meant by substantial modifications, to find out if you must register for the tax.
Find out which supplies of children’s clothing or footwear are zero-rated for VAT.
Sustainable approaches to the circular economy and resource efficiency will be developed to enable the transition to a greener future
Make all new source code open and reusable, and publish it under appropriate licences. Or if this is not possible, provide a convincing explanation of why this cannot be done for specific subsets of the source code.
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