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How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
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.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
How councils and national park authorities should deal with the removal of abandoned vehicles from land in the open air and roads.
How councils should deal with litter, refuse and dog mess, and the penalties they can give.
Find answers to questions about space junk, the risk to satellites in orbit, and how space sustainability can help, as well as the UK Space Agency's work to address these issues.
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.
Arrange a special collection for large waste items - most councils will collect things like old sofas, fridges or washing machines for a fee
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
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.
The UK Space Agency is funding research into refuelling an upcoming mission to remove space junk, which could help prolong the life of satellites and prevent adding more debris to the space environment.
How and when local authorities can and cannot use fixed penalty notices (FPNs) for householders not complying with waste receptacle requirements.
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