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You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
Find out which plastic packaging components are exempt or excluded from the tax, and if the packaging counts towards the 10-tonne threshold for registration.
How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
How to store oil safely, check which oil storage regulations apply and pollution penalties
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Some of the most polluting single-use plastic items banned from 1 October
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.
Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
Check what classifies as plastic, recycled plastic and packaging components, and if the packaging you manufacture or import is subject to the tax.
If you have manufactured or imported 10 or more tonnes of plastic packaging in the last 12 months, you may need to register for the tax.
How to reduce the risk of disease from your animal feed storage units.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
The additional appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WTEE.
Defra wants your views on a plan to ban the supply of single-use plastic items and polystyrene food and drink containers.
These are appropriate measures for waste storage at a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
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