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This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
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 develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
Understand what drinks businesses need to do under the Deposit Return Scheme from 1 October 2027.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
Definition of single-use vapes and reusable vapes, information on regulation and enforcement, and how to recycle vapes.
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).
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
Find out when you must charge a minimum of 10 pence for single-use carrier bags, bags you're not required to charge for and the records you must keep and submit.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Guidance from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended producer responsibility (EPR) packaging must collect and submit packaging data.
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