Policy

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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• Leaving decommissioned pipes in excavations: RPS 8

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 22 June 2017

• Temporary storage of contaminated waste waters removed from gas pipelines: RPS 100

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 22 June 2017

• AB Produce, Measham, Leicestershire

  • Display type: Notice
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 21 June 2017

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

  • Display type: Notice
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 12 June 2017

• Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) public registers

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 June 2017

• Application for deployment of mobile plant for land-spreading of waste

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 25 May 2017

• Environmental permits: regulatory position statements

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 22 May 2017

• Vehicle seizure notices

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 19 May 2017

• Packaging waste: producer responsibilities

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 15 May 2017

• Cornwall waste disposer prosecuted for illegally storing asbestos

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

• Arrests made following dawn raids

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

• Waste scam now sees Boston targeted

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 13 April 2017

• Man fined for running illegal waste site

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 12 April 2017

• Government publishes new anti-littering strategy

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Department for Communities and Local Government and 2 others
  • Updated: 10 April 2017

• Reducing litter: penalties for environmental offences

  • Display type: Closed consultation
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 10 April 2017

• Litter Strategy for England

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Communities and Local Government and 2 others
  • Updated: 10 April 2017

• Path Head Landfill, Gateshead

  • Display type: Notice
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 7 April 2017

• Jail term for Scunthorpe waste operator

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 7 April 2017

• Waste scam warning for Lincolnshire farmers and landowners

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 5 April 2017

• Company owner jailed for 15 months

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

• Digest of waste and resource statistics

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 20 March 2017

• Innovative fibreboard recycling firm attracts £250,000 investment

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Innovate UK
  • Updated: 16 March 2017

• Accessing the UK Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR): 2013 to 2016 review

  • Display type: Closed consultation
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 16 March 2017

• Carrier bag charges: retailers' responsibilities

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 14 March 2017

• Essex wood waste site fined for illegal waste operation

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 14 March 2017

• Payback for illegal waste crimes

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

• Form: delegation of approved/appropriate person

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 20 February 2017

• Producer Responsibility Regulatory Services: packaging data service levels

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 20 February 2017

• Producer Responsibility Regulatory Services: WEEE data service levels

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 20 February 2017

• Producer Responsibility Regulatory Services: batteries data service levels

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 20 February 2017

• Wiltshire site owner fined for obstructing Environment Agency staff

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

• Jailed business owner loses environmental licence

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 16 February 2017

• Landowners warned after waste dumped illegally

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 16 February 2017

• Blaydon Quarry Landfill, Newcastle upon Tyne

  • Display type: Notice
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 10 February 2017

• Monitoring emissions to air, land and water (MCERTS)

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 9 February 2017

• Suez to pay £505,000 for pollution at Cornwall's largest landfill

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 9 February 2017

• Newcastle man sentenced for illegal waste operation

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 9 February 2017

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

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 February 2017

• M9: environmental monitoring of bioaerosols at regulated facilities

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 February 2017

• Financial provision for landfill

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 3 February 2017