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Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
Guidance for those involved in the placing of packaged goods on the market.
An independent research report.
How to recover fluorinated gas (F gas) from equipment and get it reclaimed or recycled.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Up to £295m in capital funding for local authorities to roll out weekly food waste collections
Check what classifies as plastic, recycled plastic and packaging components, and if the packaging you manufacture or import is subject to the tax.
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Use this form and follow the conditions when you want to use recycled manure solids as bedding for dairy cattle.
This series brings together all documents relating to Waste and recycling statistics.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Wide-ranging projects across seven key sectors of the economy to boost better design and reuse of resources whilst creating jobs and growing the economy
Packaging regulations: environmental requirements, recycling
Extended producer responsibility scheme deferred for a year until October 2025
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