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Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
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.
How to apply for compliance scheme approval, register, take on packaging producer responsibilities and comply.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
The rules for manufacturing mercury added products in Great Britain, as well as importing and exporting them between Great Britain and non-EU countries.
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 to calculate and maintain a financial provision for a Category A mining waste facility under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
Environment Agency regulatory position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can temporarily exceed the waste wood storage limit in your environmental permit.
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