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How to record and report data under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging requirements.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can use combustion units of less than 0.4 megawatts thermal input (aggregated) to burn biogas or biomethane under permit SR2023 No 1.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
How you can sample and test IBAA as an alternative to a full assessment using the WM3 waste classification technical guidance.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing waste samples for regulation or investigation at sites other than where the samples are tested or analysed.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for compost produced from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
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.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
Vehicle seizure notice for MX 72 AVU.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can collect and treat waste from different businesses within the same premises.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
How to report a business or organisation that is not separating or collecting recyclable waste in line with the Simpler Recycling rules.
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