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You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Consumer advice and details of how to report problems with e-cigarettes with guidance on how to place an e-cigarette on the market in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, including the notification scheme.
Waste Container guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Register a new manufacturer's mark and access lists of approved and inactive measuring container bottles (MCB) marks.
How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
Renewal application form for verified gross mass of containers
Location: North Pacific Ocean.
Indicative application document
Find out if you can zero rate VAT if you sell, lease or hire out a freight container for export from the UK.
Find out which plastic packaging components are exempt or excluded from the tax, and if the packaging counts towards the 10-tonne threshold for registration.
MCA approved organisations for container weight requirements
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Location: 700 miles east of Japan, North Pacific Ocean.
Location: Berth Stomkaje, Port of Bremerhaven, Germany.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
An IMO circular MSC 1/circ.1475 on the guidelines regarding the verified gross mass of a container carrying cargo
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
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