We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
These are the appropriate measures for waste pre-acceptance, acceptance and tracking at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste. They do not apply when waste will be received directly from a householder.
This guidance is to understand the European Community (EC) Directive 2006/12/EC on waste, as it relates to permitting waste operations in England and Wales.
All guidance documents for the packaging of Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
Sets out changes in terminology in definitions relating to waste reporting obligations.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
What operators need to do in terms of submitting plans for radioactive waste disposal following our exit from Euratom and requirements under Article 37.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
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.
Technical guidance on how to assess and classify waste.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
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
List of exemptions for temporarily storing waste at the place where it was produced or elsewhere.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for operators.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).