Guidance

Cleaning wheeled waste containers and bins: prevent pollution

Guidance about how to comply with environmental law and prevent pollution from cleaning wheeled waste containers.

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 1 October 2010

This publication was withdrawn on 14 December 2015

All pollution prevention guidance (PPGs) that was previously maintained by the Environment Agency has been withdrawn from use and can now be found on The National Archives.

Pollution prevention guidance contained a mix of regulatory requirements and good practice advice. The Environment Agency does not provide ‘good practice’ guidance.

Current guidance explains how to: report an environmental incident, get permission to discharge to surface or groundwater, manage business and commercial waste, store oil and any oil storage regulations, discharge sewage with no mains drainage, work on or near water and manage water on land.

Documents

Cleaning wheeled waste containers

Ref: LIT 8393

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Details

Guidance for businesses who clean commercial or domestic wheeled waste containers. It includes information about dealing with effluent and waste management.

Published 1 October 2010