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Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
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.
Our dedicated Waste Services teams deliver and develop integrated waste management capabilities, support national strategies, and manage customer and supplier relationships across the waste lifecycle.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
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.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of waste from clearing blocked sewers.
Publishing dates for packaging data.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread waste gypsum to benefit land.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when sweeping waste can be stored and bulked before collection for onward recovery and disposal elsewhere
Environment Agency regulatory position on drying paper manufacturing wastes to make animal bedding.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion treatment capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes each year.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
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