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Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
This guidance is for any business or public body which generates, handles or treats waste.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
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.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
Dstl’s incinerator facility near Salisbury provides a specialist disposal solution for hazardous or high security waste materials.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
Guidance for designated collection facilities (DCF) and charities on how to comply with waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and waste regulations.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Local authorities can find out how and when they’ll start to receive funding to manage packaging waste, including actions chief executives need to take.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by vehicle maintenance and dismantling activities.
How to separate, store, transport and dispose of international catering waste (ICW).
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
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