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When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
Setting out the progress being made on the GovTech waste tracking challenge, to build the UK's first comprehensive digital waste tracking system.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
This series brings together all documents relating to Waste and recycling statistics.
How to spot chronic wasting disease (CWD), what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
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
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
Considerable savings can be made by adopting simple cost-effective techniques for minimising industrial waste during the production processes.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
A national anti-littering campaign to make littering culturally unacceptable in a generation.
Our mission is to deliver a geological disposal facility and provide radioactive waste management solutions. We are engaging with communities to inform our work.
Find out if you must offer free collection of old batteries - batteries you must take back, how to collect and send batteries to be recycled, penalties
A man from Culmhead has been fined £1,200 after he illegally stored waste at a site within the Blackdown Hills, Somerset.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) - retailer and wholesaler responsibilities, waste collection and compliance schemes.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
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