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Standard rules for a household waste recycling centre.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
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 on sustainability reporting requirements for central government annual reports and accounts, which may be used by other public sector bodies.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Guidance for Low Level Radioactive Waste (LLW) site operators, detailing how eligible sites can be exempted from Nuclear Third Party Liability.
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.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
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.
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.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
This guidance is for any business or public body which generates, handles or treats waste.
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