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How to apply for registration (mandatory) and accreditation (voluntary) including eligibility, timelines, evidence required, charges and potential outcomes.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
You can use software to automatically upload your waste records into the report receipt of waste service.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility and how to operate legally under the approval.
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).
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
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).
Understand which wipes will be banned, when plastic wet wipes can still be sold, and how the ban will be enforced.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on collecting and reporting nation data, self-managed organisational waste data for 2024 to 2027 and bags data for 2025 to 2027.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
Find out when large and small producers must register for extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging and report data.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
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