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When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
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.
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) - retailer and wholesaler responsibilities, waste collection and compliance schemes.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How councils and national park authorities should deal with the removal of abandoned vehicles from land in the open air and roads.
How to dispose of household waste legally. Check your council’s website for bin collection, bulky waste collection. What you must do if using private companies
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
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.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Business waste management in England - your duty of care, waste collection, licences and waste transfer notes
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Toolkit for local authorities, housing providers and support organisations in the social rented sector, providing information on the removal of the spare room subsidy.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
A national anti-littering campaign to make littering culturally unacceptable in a generation.
How councils should deal with litter, refuse and dog mess, and the penalties they can give.
New approach puts an end to confusing recycling and excessive bins
These documents explain how OHID is approaching reduction and food and drink reformulation as part of the government’s obesity strategy.
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