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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.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
This code of practice outlines what a court of law might consider as applicable to different types of land.
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.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on collecting and reporting nation of sale and self-managed organisational waste data for 2024 and 2025.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
Guidance from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households.
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