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Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
How to check if your waste is international catering waste (ICW) and how to store, transport and dispose of it.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
Putting geological disposal into context
Environment Agency regulatory position on how to classify excavated waste from street works and utility works when you cannot take samples before excavation.
When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
This guidance is for any business or public body which generates, handles or treats waste.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
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.
A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can treat and dispose of invasive non-native plant material without an environmental permit.
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