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Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Find out how OPG contacts customers and what to do if you are worried a call, email or message is not genuine.
Check a list of recent phone contacts from HMRC to help you decide if a phone call you've received is a scam.
When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Choose a unique name that people will remember when they want to make a donation or to volunteer.
Object to a company's application to be removed from the companies register - how to find out if a company's applied for insolvency, who can object, how to object, what happens next.
Find out how internet scams work and what to be aware of - misleading websites, report website fraud, suspicious communication and phishing
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
The company made millions of unsolicited cold-calls, with thousands of people complaining to the Information Commissioner’s Office
We deal with complaints about cases where a company name is registered for the primary purpose of preventing someone else with legitimate interest from registering it, or demanding payment from them to release it. Company Names Tribunal works with the...
How to dispose of household waste legally. Check your council’s website for bin collection, bulky waste collection. What you must do if using private companies
Report a missing or damaged street or road name sign to your local council
How to make a negligible value claim for unquoted shares, and how to check if shares previously quoted on the London Stock Exchange now have negligible value.
How to report environmental incidents, including pollution, damage to the natural environment, flooding, illegal fishing or a collapsed river bank.
How councils should deal with litter, refuse and dog mess, and the penalties they can give.
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