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Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers.
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.
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.
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.
You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.
This guidance is for any business or public body which generates, handles or treats waste.
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.
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.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste in England.
Guidance from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
This code of practice outlines what a court of law might consider as applicable to different types of land.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for digestate produced from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.
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