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This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
Guidance from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
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.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
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