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Register and pay for exemptions to store, treat, use or dispose of waste. Deregister exemptions you no longer need and update details that have changed.
Technical guidance on how to assess and classify waste.
When you may need an environmental permit or licence for activities that could pollute, increase flood risk, affect land drainage or affect water resources. Check the rules and get advice before you start operating.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
You must identify and classify your waste before you send it for recycling or disposal. This makes sure you or anyone handling your waste deals with it properly.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Understand which wipes will be banned, when plastic wet wipes can still be sold, and how the ban will be enforced.
U10 exemption lets you spread certain wastes on agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
Under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging, large producers must use the RAM to assess packaging recyclability and report the results of their assessments to the environmental regulator.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
If you put EEE on the UK market you must follow rules on both the EEE you sell and the EEE that becomes waste (WEEE).
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
Definition of single-use vapes and reusable vapes, information on regulation and enforcement, and how to recycle vapes.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
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