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How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
How to check if your waste is international catering waste (ICW) and how to store, transport and dispose of it.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
How to comply with regulations for energy recovery and advanced conversion technologies.
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
The T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
Information about the UK food chain.
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 Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) assesses and advises on mutagenic risks to humans. COM is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care and the...
Igniting innovation: With the help of DASA funding, engineers from the University of Glasgow successfully test-fired a rocket that eats itself for fuel
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can treat food waste at the premises where the food was served and consumed without an environmental permit.
Statistics about crops grown in the UK for non-food use.
How councils should deal with litter, refuse and dog mess, and the penalties they can give.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Why you might be given a 'Fixed Penalty Notice' for an environmental offence by your local authority and how you can pay or challenge it
Up to £295m in capital funding for local authorities to roll out weekly food waste collections
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