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Find out about green taxes for businesses - tax relief for becoming more energy efficient and schemes for off-setting your environmental impact.
Information that must go with waste that falls under article 18 (green list) controls when shipping the waste.
Find out if you must offer free collection of old batteries - batteries you must take back, how to collect and send batteries to be recycled, penalties
Complete if you are applying for a new bespoke permit.
Packaging regulations: environmental requirements, recycling
Complete if you are applying for a new standard facilities permit.
Fill in part C2 if you are applying to change an existing bespoke permit.
Use this form to register a T11 WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) exemption.
Complete if you want to surrender an environmental permit for installations, waste operations, mining waste operations, medium combustion plant/specified generator and mobile plant permits.
Get the Environment Agency’s opinion on if a material is a by-product or meets 'end of waste' status. The service costs £125 an hour including VAT.
Use this form to register the same waste exemptions at 30 or more sites, or along linear networks.
Complete if you are applying to transfer an existing permit. For installations, waste operations and mining waste operations only.
If you run a waste recovery site with a permit in England and regularly receive shipments of the same waste, you may benefit from having a 'pre-consent' certificate.
Complete if you are applying to change an existing permit.
Application form for an environmental permit for radioactive substances users.
Complete if you are applying for a new permit, or to change or transfer an existing permit.
Complete if you are applying to vary (change) an existing permit.
Templates for distributors operating a take-back scheme under the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) regulations.
Use this form to get approval as an AATF for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
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