Waste and recycling

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Services

1. Dispose of garden waste

   Arrange for the collection of garden waste by your council

2. Register or renew as a waste carrier, broker or dealer (England)

   Register or renew registration with the Environment Agency to transport, buy, sell or broker waste.

3. Green Deal: energy saving for your home

   Green Deal home and business energy-saving improvements - assessments, repayments, Home Improvement Fund scheme

4. Recycling collections

   Find out if your council collects recycling, how to recycle household waste such as mobile phones, computers, packaging and green waste

5. Dispose of business or commercial waste

   Business waste management in England - your duty of care, waste collection, licences and waste transfer notes

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Guidance and regulation

1. Access the public register for environmental information
   • Detailed guide
   • 14 August 2018
   • Environment Agency
2. Register your waste exemptions: environmental permits (England)
   • Detailed guide
   • 6 April 2018
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Environment Agency
3. Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits
   • Detailed guide
   • 16 October 2018
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Environment Agency
4. Waste classification technical guidance
   • Guidance
   • 26 June 2018
   • Environment Agency
5. Waste exemption: U1 use of waste in construction
   • Detailed guide
   • 7 November 2017
   • Environment Agency

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News and communications

25 April 2019 — Press release

Corby man gets a suspended sentence for illegal waste operations

Environment Agency

1. Waste overwhelms Dorset brothers' recycling business
   • 24 April 2019
   • Environment Agency
   • Press release
2. CoRWM plenary meeting dates and locations 2019
   • 1 April 2019
   • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
   • News story
3. Second consecutive Gold in national awards for LLWR Site team
   • 26 March 2019
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • News story
4. Gwen Parry-Jones OBE announced as Magnox Chief Executive Officer
   • 26 March 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Magnox Ltd
   • News story

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Research and statistics

1. Quarterly Agricultural Market Report (average livestock and crop prices) Northern Ireland, 2019
   • 25 April 2019
   • Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
   • National statistics
2. Managing on-site stockpiling and use of high volumes of concrete-based demolition material
   • 14 March 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Independent report
3. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in the UK
   • 14 March 2019
   • Environment Agency
   • Statistical data set
4. ENV23 - UK statistics on waste
   • 7 March 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
   • Statistical data set
5. UK statistics on waste
   • 7 March 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
   • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Standard rules consultation no 16: changes to rules
   • 11 April 2019
   • Environment Agency
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 20 September 2018
2. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Business Plan 2019 to 2022
   • 29 March 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Radioactive Waste Management, Sellafield Ltd, Dounreay , Magnox Ltd, and Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 04 February 2019
3. Water abstraction plan 2017
   • 11 April 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
   • Policy paper
4. Land remediation specialists embrace e-sharing
   • 27 March 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Case study
5. Forward planning to ensure cement supplies
   • 27 March 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Radioactive Waste Management, and Sellafield Ltd
   • Case study

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. NDA 5-year research and development plan 2019 to 2024
   • 23 April 2019
   • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
   • Corporate report
2. CoRWM meeting minutes 2019
   • 17 April 2019
   • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
   • Transparency
3. Sizewell C: response to EDF Energy stage 3 consultation
   • 15 April 2019
   • Environment Agency
   • Corporate report
4. Radioactive particles in the environment around Dounreay
   • 12 April 2019
   • Dounreay
   • Corporate report
5. On The Level Issue 19 March 2019
   • 5 April 2019
   • Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
   • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
2. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
3. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
4. Public Health England
5. Civil Nuclear Police Authority

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1. Ministry of Defence
2. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
3. Office for Product Safety & Standards
4. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. Department for Transport
6. HM Treasury
7. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
8. HM Revenue & Customs
9. Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
10. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
11. Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board
12. Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee
13. Animal & Plant Health Agency
14. Companies House
15. Department of Health & Social Care
16. Home Office
17. Northern Ireland Office
18. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
19. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
20. Rural Payments Agency
21. UK Export Finance

1. Environment Agency
2. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
3. Radioactive Waste Management
4. Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
5. Sellafield Ltd
6. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
7. Magnox Ltd
8. Innovate UK
9. Dounreay
10. Defence Equipment and Support
11. Defence Infrastructure Organisation
12. Forensic Science Regulator
13. Marine Accident Investigation Branch

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1. Radioactive and nuclear substances and waste
2. Waste and environmental impact
3. Waste management