Collection

Classify different types of waste

Guidance on how to identify and classify waste before you send it for recycling or disposal.

• From: Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 1 May 2025

Overview of your responsibilites

• Classify different types of waste: your legal responsibilities
  • 21 March 2014
  • Guidance

Construction and demolition waste

• Construction and demolition waste: how to classify
  • 21 March 2014
  • Guidance

Electrical and electronic equipment

• Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): how to classify
  • 21 March 2014
  • Guidance
• Classify some waste electrical devices and components, and wastes from their treatment
  • 19 February 2025
  • Guidance

Hazardous waste and POPs

• Hazardous waste
• Identify and classify waste containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
  • 1 April 2025
  • Guidance
• Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
  • 1 October 2020
  • Guidance

Healthcare and related wastes

• Healthcare and related wastes: how to classify
  • 21 March 2014
  • Guidance

Packaging waste and recyclables

• Packaging waste and recyclables: how to classify
  • 21 March 2014
  • Guidance

Vehicle and oily wastes

• Vehicle and oily wastes: how to classify
  • 21 March 2014
  • Guidance

Wastes from mechanical treatment

• Wastes from mechanical treatment of waste: how to classify
  • 1 May 2025
  • Guidance

Technical guidance: WM3

• Waste classification technical guidance
  • 28 September 2021
  • Guidance

Waste export and import

• Waste: export and import
  • 16 October 2024
  • Guidance
• Waste exports control tool
  • 1 January 2025
  • Guidance
• Waste Shipments Regulation (WSR): consolidated waste list
  • 2 January 2025
  • Guidance

Published 1 May 2025