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Environment Agency regulatory position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on collecting and reporting nation of sale, self-managed organisational waste and plastic and paper bags data for 2024 and 2025.
Information for local authorities who will receive payments under the extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging scheme.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
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.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
You can use software to automatically upload your waste records into the report receipt of waste service.
Nuclear Waste Services’ (NWS) purpose is to safely manage the UK’s radioactive waste – today and for the future.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Standard rules for a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
Standard rules for unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction as a deposit for recovery operation.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
The safe, secure, and long-term solution for the most hazardous radioactive waste in the UK.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility.
Guidance for operators, test laboratories and equipment suppliers on the quality assurance of continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS).
Getting to know the geology in your area
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