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Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Get help to classify various types of wood for import and export.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
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Scrap your vehicle at an authorised treatment facility if it’s reached the end of its life and you want to dispose of it
Wreck and salvage laws, the role of the Receiver of the Wreck, wreck owners and salvors and how to report wreck material.
Buy or sell a vehicle, check a used vehicle, written off vehicles, scrapping a vehicle
Guidance and information for local authorities on licencing and suitability of dealers, chargeable fees, definition of terms and other issues around this 2013 act.
Find an authorised scrapyard where you can take your vehicle to be scrapped
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.
The T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
The U8 exemption allows you to use waste materials (that do not need treating) for a specific purpose to reduce the use of virgin or non-waste materials.
Report wreck material to the Receiver of Wreck - what counts as wreck material, fines and deadline
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
Illegal Teesside scrap site with hundreds of cars piled up must now be cleared following Environment Agency investigation.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
Over 2,100 tonnes of solid radioactive waste – the equivalent weight of 153 Big Ben bells - have been retrieved and safely stored at Hunterston A.
A man from Culmhead has been fined £1,200 after he illegally stored waste at a site within the Blackdown Hills, Somerset.
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