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This code of practice outlines what a court of law might consider as applicable to different types of land.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
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.
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 to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
When you must report the amount of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) you place on the market and how to do it.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
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.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Environment Agency regulatory position on collecting and reporting nation of sale, self-managed organisational waste and plastic and paper bags data for 2024 and 2025.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for compost produced from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
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