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Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, treating and using plastic waste coded 16 03 06, when this waste code is not in your environmental permit or waste exemption.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for biomethane produced from organic wastes in a landfill site or anaerobic digestion plant.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
By getting an approved framework, you’ll be able to show when a material has reached end of waste status.
Standard rules for a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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 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 when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
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