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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.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
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.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
All specifications for the packaging of all Higher Activity Waste (HAW)
The requirements for packaging LHGW
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors (including retailers).
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
Waste Package guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
Find out what help you can get from your council to dispose of hazardous and toxic waste
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
The D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
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