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U10 exemption lets you spread certain wastes on agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
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).
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
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).
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Definition of single-use vapes and reusable vapes, information on regulation and enforcement, and how to recycle vapes.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste in England.
T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
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.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
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