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How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
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.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for compost produced from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
Local authorities can find out how and when they’ll start to receive funding to manage packaging waste, including actions chief executives need to take.
You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Find out how to prepare written assessments to collect paper and card with other dry recyclables. Assessments will be required from March 2025 or March 2026, depending where you collect from.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for digestate produced from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
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