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How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
How to separate, store, transport and dispose of international catering waste (ICW).
How to meet 'end of waste' status for digestate produced from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste in England.
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.
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.
Guidance from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households.
You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.
How you can sample and test IBAA as an alternative to a full assessment using the WM3 waste classification technical guidance.
How to record and report data under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging requirements.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
How to report a business or organisation that is not separating or collecting recyclable waste in line with the Simpler Recycling rules.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
Standard rules for a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
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