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Registers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) producers, approved exporters, approved authorised treatment facilities and producer compliance schemes.
How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
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).
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.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste in England.
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.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
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.
Information for local authorities who will receive payments under the extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging scheme.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
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