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Appropriate measures for waste treatment.
The T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
Process efficiency related appropriate measures for biological waste treatment.
Setting out the progress being made on the GovTech waste tracking challenge, to build the UK's first comprehensive digital waste tracking system.
The cross-departmental plan to maximise resources and minimise waste in England.
The guide highlights key environmental, technical and economic issues to raise the level of understanding and debate around energy from waste.
List of exemptions for disposing of waste, for example depositing or burning it in certain ways. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
When your waste operation does not need a permit but you may need to register.
How to comply with regulations for energy recovery and advanced conversion technologies.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
This strategy sets out how we will preserve material resources by minimising waste, promoting resource efficiency and moving towards a circular economy in England.
How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.
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.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
List of exemptions for using waste, for example as building material, fuel or fertiliser. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
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