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This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
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).
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).
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
Understand which wipes will be banned, when plastic wet wipes can still be sold, and how the ban will be enforced.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
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.
Information for local authorities who will receive payments under the extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging scheme.
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 construction and demolition waste.
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended producer responsibility (EPR) packaging must collect and submit packaging data.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Standard rules for unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction as a deposit for recovery operation.
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