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You must identify and classify your waste before you send it for recycling or disposal. This makes sure you or anyone handling your waste deals with it properly.
The U11 exemption allows you to spread waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Publishing dates for packaging data.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, treating, and using excavated utilities wastes classified under RPS 298.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
When you can store and dewater street sweeping waste without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
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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 waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
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