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How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
The T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can treat food waste at the premises where the food was served and consumed without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when a waste collection authority, or contractors working on their behalf, can store food waste.
Up to £295m in capital funding for local authorities to roll out weekly food waste collections
The food waste collection grant determination and funding allocations.
How to check if your waste is international catering waste (ICW) and how to store, transport and dispose of it.
Results from the government’s monitoring of pesticide residues in food, reviewed by the Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF).
You must consider this guidance if you deal with surplus or waste food and drink.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Seeking views on options to improve food waste reporting by large food businesses in England.
Report examining why and how we should reduce food waste in the UK.
A one-off report about household food and drink waste linked to food and drink purchases.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
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