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Find out what animal by-products (material with animal content) you can use in a small scale compost heap and if your heap needs approval.
The T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when a waste collection authority, or contractors working on their behalf, can store food waste.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
The T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Results from the government’s monitoring of pesticide residues in food, reviewed by the Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF).
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
The D1 exemption allows you to deposit dredging spoil on the banks of the water it was dredged from and treat it by screening and removing water.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
When your waste operation does not need a permit but you may need to register.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
Guidance on the handling of slurry and manure to help reduce the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
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