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D4 exemption allows you to deposit diseased crops where they were grown, when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases or pests.
All specifications for the packaging of all Higher Activity Waste (HAW)
Our dedicated Waste Services teams deliver and develop integrated waste management capabilities, support national strategies, and manage customer and supplier relationships across the waste lifecycle.
T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) authorised treatment facility at a specified location.
Standard rules SR2015 No 14: 75kte metal recycling site.
Standard rules for the storage of asbestos waste.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can exceed storage capacity at permitted or unpermitted sites in response to current national treatment capacity constraints for WTEE.
This page describes standard package designs for Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW).
Guidance for the aviation sector on how to separate recyclable waste from international catering waste (ICW).
How to report a business or organisation that is not separating or collecting recyclable waste in line with the Simpler Recycling rules.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
Where and how to find more information about geological disposal
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
Find out how to prepare written assessments to collect paper and card with other dry recyclables. Assessments will be required from March 2025 or March 2026, depending where you collect from.
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