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How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
How to apply for environmental permit for an activity in England that could cause pollution, increase flood risk or affect land drainage.
T28 waste exemption allows pharmacies and similar practitioners to denature controlled drugs, to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. T28 exemptions are free of charge.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Registers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) producers, approved exporters, approved authorised treatment facilities and producer compliance schemes.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
Definition of single-use vapes and reusable vapes, information on regulation and enforcement, and how to recycle vapes.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
Find out when you must charge a minimum of 10 pence for single-use carrier bags, bags you're not required to charge for and the records you must keep and submit.
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.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
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).
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