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Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
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.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Standard rules for a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
The Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is the UK’s principal facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction.
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.
For operators of a small metal recycling facility accepting no more than 5,000 tonnes of waste each year with no more than 100 tonnes on site at any one time.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
For operators storing and repackaging healthcare waste, photographic and chemical wastes from healthcare premises and similar municipal wastes at a named location.
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