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How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
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 if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
How to separate, store, transport and dispose of international catering waste (ICW).
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land spreading and deployment form.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
This guidance is for any business or public body which generates, handles or treats waste.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that apply to regulated facilities permitted to treat or transfer separate collections of waste batteries.
When you must report the amount of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) you place on the market and how to do it.
How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
How to report a business or organisation that is not separating or collecting recyclable waste in line with the Simpler Recycling rules.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility and how to operate legally under the approval.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
How to document the way you collect your packaging and packaging waste data - known as your ‘methodology' - as an online marketplace or other producer obligated under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.…
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