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U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for compost produced from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
How and when you can seize a vehicle to investigate a waste crime.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
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.
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.
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.
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land spreading and deployment form.
When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
How to apply to the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) if you want to submit a nuclear power plant design.
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
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