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This series brings together all documents relating to Waste and recycling statistics.
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
When your waste operation does not need a permit but you may need to register.
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.
Nuclear waste reaches the end of the line, making it safer, sooner.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors (including retailers).
NDA's waste management strategy aims to protect people and the environment.
Setting out the progress being made on the GovTech waste tracking challenge, to build the UK's first comprehensive digital waste tracking system.
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.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
The T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers.
The requirements for packaging LHGW
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Reports about the regulatory scrutiny of Nuclear Waste Services' work on the geological disposal of radioactive waste.
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