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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 stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Guidance from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
This code of practice outlines what a court of law might consider as applicable to different types of land.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
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.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
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.
This page introduces Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) Waste Package Specifications (WPS) and Guidance for waste packages intended for geological disposal.
The safe, secure, and long-term solution for the most hazardous radioactive waste in the UK.
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