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How to check if your waste is international catering waste (ICW) and how to store, transport and dispose of it.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
The Contracts for Innovation competition provides funding to trial and validate the impacts of resource efficiency solutions in the automotive, chemicals and construction sectors.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
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.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
This guidance is for any business or public body which generates, handles or treats waste.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
How to assess and report B2C and B2B electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) products.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
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.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
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