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Waste and recycling

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Environment Agency

What the government’s doing about waste and recycling.

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• Melksham Metals boss to pay £1.99 million or be jailed for 8 years

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 20 October 2017

• Waste electrical and electronic equipment: amending the 2013 UK regulations

  • Display type: Open consultation
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 20 October 2017

• Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) compliance fee 2017

  • Display type: Open consultation
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 18 October 2017

• Waste criminal pays up after Proceeds of Crime confiscation order

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 17 October 2017

• Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) public registers

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 11 October 2017

• MCERTS: performance standard for laboratories testing samples from stack emissions monitoring

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 11 October 2017

• OMA: preparation for an audit

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 11 October 2017

• OMA: background knowledge for EPR operators

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 11 October 2017

• Landfill methane oxidation techniques

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 10 October 2017

• Environmental permits: regulatory position statements

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 6 October 2017

• Use of manufactured topsoil: RPS 190

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 6 October 2017

• Storing waste sandbags at collection sites after a flood: RPS 168

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 5 October 2017

• Technical guidance for regulated industry sectors: environmental permitting

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 4 October 2017

• Pengwedna poultry farm public consultation now live

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 4 October 2017

• Bristol company fined for hazardous waste offences

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 3 October 2017

• Views sought on reward and return schemes for drinks containers

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 2 October 2017

• Drinks containers – reducing litter and increasing recycling: call for evidence

  • Display type: Open consultation
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 2 October 2017

• AB Produce, Measham, Leicestershire

  • Display type: Notice
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 29 September 2017

• Enforcement undertakings accepted by the Environment Agency

  • Display type: Transparency data
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 27 September 2017

• Waste criminals dump £750,000 clean-up bill on landowners

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 27 September 2017

• MCERTS: examination syllabuses for manual stack emission monitoring

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 25 September 2017

• Monitoring discharges to water and sewer: M18 guidance note

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 25 September 2017

• End-of-life vehicles: authorised treatment facilities register

  • Display type: Notice
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 25 September 2017

• Man who dumped chemical barrels caught out by GPS in hire van

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 21 September 2017

• Path Head Landfill, Gateshead

  • Display type: Notice
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 19 September 2017

• Better co-ordination to stop illegal waste carriers

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Environment Agency and 1 others
  • Updated: 12 September 2017

• MCERTS: performance standard for open path ambient air quality monitoring systems

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 7 September 2017

• MCERTS: performance standard for indicative ambient particulate monitors

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 7 September 2017

• Form for registering waste exemptions: WEEEX001

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 7 September 2017

• Waste management for England 2016

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 6 September 2017

• Environment Agency trials use of body cameras

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 29 August 2017

• Reducing litter: penalties for environmental offences

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 26 August 2017

• New fund launched to reduce litter through innovative projects

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Department for Communities and Local Government and 1 others
  • Updated: 26 August 2017

• Dorset farmer given suspended prison sentence for burning rubbish

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 24 August 2017

• North east man sentenced for illegal waste operation

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 24 August 2017

• RM-QG04: monitoring for incinerators and co-incinerators when CEMs are not available

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 16 August 2017

• RM-QG02: selecting CEMs for incineration and co-incineration plant falling under Chapter IV of the IED

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 16 August 2017

• RM-QG01: selecting continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMs)

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 16 August 2017

• Exporting waste: meeting EU equivalent standards

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 15 August 2017

• Blaydon Quarry Landfill, Newcastle upon Tyne

  • Display type: Notice
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 9 August 2017