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When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
Guidance for designated collection facilities (DCF) and charities on how to comply with waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and waste regulations.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land spreading and deployment form.
This code of practice outlines what a court of law might consider as applicable to different types of land.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for compost produced from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
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.
Local authorities can use their local authority payments (LAPs) account to view information about payments they receive under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits from September 2026
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
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