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How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
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.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
T29 exemption allows farmers, landscapers and other land managers to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings produced during their work.
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your non-UK suppliers’ household electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces as defined in the amended waste EEE regulations mu…
You must complete and submit this application if you are submitting a notification under the Waste Shipments Regulation.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Unofficial list of waste description codes listed in annexes to the Waste Shipments Regulation.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste fire extinguishers before metal recovery.
Guidance for packaging producers on 2025 recyclability assessments and implications for 2026-2027 modulated fees.
This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
All guidance documents for the packaging of Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
Use the definitions, criteria and evidence given to classify portable and industrial batteries.
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).
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
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