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

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

• Environmental permits: regulatory position statements

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

• Path Head Landfill, Gateshead

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

• Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) public registers

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 18 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

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

  • Display type: Notice
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 23 August 2017

• RM-QG04: monitoring under the Waste Incineration Directive (WID) when continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMs) are not available

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

• RM-QG02: selecting continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMs) for installations falling under the Waste Incineration Directive (WID)

  • 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

• Permits for waste incineration: fees and charges for applications

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 8 August 2017

• Charitable recycling company wins Sellafield contract

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Sellafield Ltd
  • Updated: 4 August 2017

• M1 sampling requirements for stack emission monitoring

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

• M2 monitoring of stack emissions to air

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

• Report landfill data (England only)

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 August 2017

• Carrier bags: why there's a 5p charge

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 31 July 2017

• Carrier bag charges: retailers' responsibilities

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 31 July 2017

• Environment Secretary pledges action on ocean plastics

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 21 July 2017

• Carrier bag charge: summary of data in England

  • Display type: Research and analysis
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 21 July 2017

• Charges for single-use plastic carrier bags

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 21 July 2017

• Litter Strategy for England

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department for Communities and Local Government and 2 others
  • Updated: 21 July 2017

• Demolition company fined for illegal waste site

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

• Form WQE4: making or storing field silage notification

  • Display type: Form
  • From: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 29 June 2017

• Scrap yard licence revoked for illegal activity

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

• 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

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

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