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Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
Environment Agency enforcement position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by mechanical treatment at a waste management facility.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by vehicle maintenance and dismantling activities.
UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the treatment and disposal of invasive non-native plants and associated soil and materials.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
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