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
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).
U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
These are the appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring healthcare waste.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
How to use the maps to find out if you are at risk of flooding from surface water.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
Your responsibilities to check equipment for fluorinated gas (F gas) leaks.
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 to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for compost produced from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Find out how to express the mass of a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F gas) in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent to comply with regulations on F gases.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
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 and requires JavaScript).