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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.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
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).
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.
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).
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste in England.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for tyre pyrolysis oil produced from the pyrolysis of waste tyres.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
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.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
Guidance from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households.
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended producer responsibility (EPR) packaging must collect and submit packaging data.
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 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.
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