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Find out what records and accounts you must keep to support the information that you submit on your Plastic Packaging Tax return.
The T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.
How to apply to become an authorised ship recycling facility and operate legally under the approval.
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
The T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of industrial hydrogen production from methane or refinery fuel gas with carbon capture for storage.
This series brings together all documents relating to Waste and recycling statistics.
The T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
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.
From today, households no longer have to pay to get rid of DIY waste at council recycling centres
Seeking views on plans to make local authorities collect the same kind of materials for household recycling and on improving how businesses recycle in England.
Find out how to get a recycling bin from your local council
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Seeking views on additional policies which will help us implement simpler recycling services.
The Waste Operations division of Nuclear Waste Services manages the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria and ensures that lower activity waste is managed effectively across the UK.
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