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This code of practice outlines what a court of law might consider as applicable to different types of land.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including April 2024.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
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.
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.
The 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.
The 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.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste
The 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.
Guidance for operators, test laboratories and equipment suppliers on the quality assurance of continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS).
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
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.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
The 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.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
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