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Waste Package guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of food, source segregated waste and mixed municipal waste at a collection point.
How a designated collection facility (DCF) must manage its separately collected household WEEE.
The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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.
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 you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
Disposability Assessment guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Check if an item of WEEE or a component removed from WEEE is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
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.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
Environment Agency enforcement position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting e-bikes at waste treatment sites under a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) permit or T11 waste exemption.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance on sampling methods and methodologies for materials facility operators, including information about sampling areas, equipment, schedules and compliance
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