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How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
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.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
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.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for digestate produced from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
This guidance is for any business or public body which generates, handles or treats waste.
Guidance on how to use the pollution inventory electronic data capture (PIEDC) system to submit your data.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Guidance for designated collection facilities (DCF) and charities on how to comply with waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and waste regulations.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
The rules for manufacturing mercury added products in Great Britain, as well as importing and exporting them between Great Britain and non-EU countries.
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