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How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
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 complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
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).
Local authorities can find out how and when they’ll start to receive funding to manage packaging waste, including actions chief executives need to take.
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.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
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