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How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.
You must make sure hazardous waste produced or handled by your business in…
You must follow these steps in England if your business: produces…
You must follow these steps if your business collects and transports…
You must follow these steps if you receive, treat or dispose of hazardous…
You must use consignment notes to move hazardous waste. A consignment note…
Consignee returns are reports on any hazardous waste received, treated or…
Contact the Environment Agency if you have any questions about hazardous…
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Business waste management in England - your duty of care, waste collection, licences and waste transfer notes
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.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
How to dispose of household waste legally. Check your council’s website for bin collection, bulky waste collection. What you must do if using private companies
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
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