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Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
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.
How you can sample and test IBAA as an alternative to a full assessment using the WM3 waste classification technical guidance.
This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Guidance for operators, test laboratories and equipment suppliers on the quality assurance of continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS).
Environment Agency regulatory position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits from May 2026
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
The rules for manufacturing mercury added products in Great Britain, as well as importing and exporting them between Great Britain and non-EU countries.
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