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Guidance on interpreting the legislation on radioactive substances in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits from January 2026
When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
How to assess and report B2C and B2B electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) products.
How to document the way you collect your packaging and packaging waste data - known as your ‘methodology' - as an online marketplace or other producer obligated under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.…
How to report a business or organisation that is not separating or collecting recyclable waste in line with the Simpler Recycling rules.
Standard rules SR2015 No 14: 75kte metal recycling site.
All specifications for the packaging of all Higher Activity Waste (HAW)
Vehicle seizure notice for SF18 JYV.
This page introduces Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) Waste Package Specifications (WPS) and Guidance for waste packages intended for geological disposal.
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.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
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