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Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility and how to operate legally under the approval.
If you put EEE on the UK market you must follow rules on both the EEE you sell and the EEE that becomes waste (WEEE).
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
Information on the lock keeper service on the River Thames.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to appeal a regulatory decision from the Environment Agency or challenge them if they fail to act in line with the Regulators’ Code.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
When you need company certification to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and how to get it.
U10 exemption lets you spread certain wastes on agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
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