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List of exemptions for treating waste, for example sorting or processing it in certain ways. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
Our mission is to deliver a geological disposal facility and provide radioactive waste management solutions. We are engaging with communities to inform our work.
Setting out the progress being made on the GovTech waste tracking challenge, to build the UK's first comprehensive digital waste tracking system.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
You must get a scrap metal dealer licence from the council if you buy, sell or store scrap metal
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
Find out if you must offer free collection of old batteries - batteries you must take back, how to collect and send batteries to be recycled, penalties
Nuclear waste reaches the end of the line, making it safer, sooner.
Business waste management in England - your duty of care, waste collection, licences and waste transfer notes
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.
The T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
The T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
The requirements for packaging LHGW
The U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
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