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This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
Form for a duty of care waste transfer note for moving waste.
Business waste management in England - your duty of care, waste collection, licences and waste transfer notes
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
Guidance for local authorities on household waste duty of care fixed penalty notices.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
The D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering environmental issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK
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