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How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical 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).
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
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.
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.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
Understand which wipes will be banned, when plastic wet wipes can still be sold, and how the ban will be enforced.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
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.
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.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.
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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