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Environmental management

Waste: detailed information

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Environment Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
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Office for Nuclear Regulation, Welsh Government, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Health and Safety Executive, Natural Resources Wales, Office for Product Safety and Standards, Closed organisation: Regulatory Delivery, and Closed organisation: UK Government Decontamination Service

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  • Dispose of business or commercial waste
  • Classify different types of waste
  • Hazardous waste
  • Recycling collections

Report a waste problem

  • Report fly-tipping or illegal waste dumping
  • Report a litter problem

Hazardous waste

  • Hazardous waste
  • Classify different types of waste
  • Hazardous waste producer registration (Wales)
  • Hazardous waste: segregation and mixing
  • Hazardous waste consignment note
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  • Hazardous waste: consignment note guidance
  • Hazardous waste: rejected loads guidance
  • Hazardous waste: consignee returns guidance (England)

Moving waste

  • Waste duty of care code of practice
  • Duty of care waste transfer note form
  • Hazardous waste consignment note
  • Handling and disposing of international catering waste
  • Waste: export and import

Waste permits and licences

  • Register or renew waste exemptions (England)
  • Standard rules: environmental permitting

Storing waste

  • Storing waste: waste exemptions

Using waste

  • Using waste: waste exemptions
  • Manage waste on land: guidance for land managers

Treating waste

  • Treating waste: waste exemptions
  • Municipal waste incinerators: apply to qualify as a recovery operation
  • End of life vehicles (ELVs): guidance for waste sites

End of waste

  • Check if your material is waste
  • Quality protocols: converting waste into non-waste products
  • Get an opinion from the definition of waste service

Disposing of waste

  • Disposing of waste: waste exemptions
  • Environmental permitting: landfill sector technical guidance
  • Dispose of garden waste
  • Find a local hazardous waste disposal service

Batteries

  • Waste batteries: producer responsibility
  • Battery waste: retailer and distributor responsibilities
  • Waste batteries: treat, recycle and export
  • Waste batteries and accumulators: technical guidance

Electrical waste

  • Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE): producer responsibilities
  • Electrical waste: retailer and distributor responsibilities
  • Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): reuse and treatment
  • Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): exporting
  • WEEE: evidence and national protocols guidance

Packaging waste

  • Packaging waste: become a packaging producer compliance scheme (PCS)
  • Packaging waste: apply to be an accredited reprocessor or exporter
  • Packaging waste: environmental responsibilities
  • Producer responsibility regulations

Waste water discharges

  • Septic tanks and sewage treatment plants: what you need to do

Registers and data

  • Access the public register for environmental information

Radioactive waste

  • Radioactive waste, spent fuel or sources
  • Inspection of Radioactive Waste Management Limited's (RWM) provision of disposability assessment and waste packaging advice
  • Low Level Waste Repository
  • Discharge of radioactive waste from nuclear sites: setting limits
  • Examples of CBRN and HazMat Incidents
  • Sub-surface unsuitability screening

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