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Technical guidance on how to assess and classify waste.
Register and pay for exemptions to store, treat, use or dispose of waste. Deregister exemptions you no longer need and update details that have changed.
You must identify and classify your waste before you send it for recycling or disposal. This makes sure you or anyone handling your waste deals with it properly.
When you may need an environmental permit or licence for activities that could pollute, increase flood risk, affect land drainage or affect water resources. Check the rules and get advice before you start operating.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging, large producers must use the RAM to assess packaging recyclability and report the results of their assessments to the environmental regulator.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
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 guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Definition of single-use vapes and reusable vapes, information on regulation and enforcement, and how to recycle vapes.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
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