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Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
Large producers can check packaging that is commonly collected or has limited collection at kerbside by UK local authorities.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended producer responsibility (EPR) packaging must collect and submit packaging data.
Nuclear Waste Services’ (NWS) purpose is to safely manage the UK’s radioactive waste – today and for the future.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for digestate produced from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
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.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can use combustion units of less than 0.4 megawatts thermal input (aggregated) to burn biogas or biomethane under permit SR2023 No 1.
How you can sample and test IBAA as an alternative to a full assessment using the WM3 waste classification technical guidance.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
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