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Environment Agency regulatory position on the treatment and disposal of invasive non-native plants and associated soil and materials.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by mechanical treatment at a waste management facility.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
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.…
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits from February 2026
Environment Agency's regulation of Hinkley Point, about EDF’s appeal, how you can find out about environmental permits and other activities at Hinkley Point.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can use reverse supply chain logistics to temporarily store and de-package recalled products containing asbestos for recovery or disposal at an appropriate facility elsewher…
Standard rules to allow you to operate a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
Unofficial list of waste description codes listed in annexes to the Waste Shipments Regulation.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
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