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To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
Publishing dates for packaging data.
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
How to apply for compliance scheme approval, register, take on packaging producer responsibilities and comply.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Environment Agency regulatory position on delaying the monthly data reporting obligations for accredited reprocessors and exporters for February and March 2026.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
Illustrative waste disposal fees for Year 2 (2026 to 2027) that will be charged to large producers obligated under Extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
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