Environmental management

Waste: detailed information

• From: Environment Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Welsh Government
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  Animal and Plant Health Agency, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Health and Safety Executive, Natural Resources Wales, Office for Nuclear Regulation, Office for Product Safety and Standards, Closed organisation: Regulatory Delivery, and Closed organisation: UK Government Decontamination Service

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Introductory guides

• 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
• Hazardous waste: example Part A of your consignment note
• 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: import and export

Waste permits and licences

• Register or renew waste exemptions (England)
• Standard rules: environmental permitting
• Waste recovery plans and permits
• Waste acceptance procedures for waste recovery on land
• Waste recovery engineering: create a construction quality plan

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

• Turn your waste into a new non-waste product or material
• Quality protocols: converting waste into non-waste products
• IsItWaste tool: for advice on the by-products and end of waste tests

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 treatment plants: permits and general binding rules

Registers and data

• Access the public register for environmental information

Radioactive waste

• Radioactive substances regulation (RSR) for non-nuclear sites
• 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
• Radioactive substances regulation for nuclear sites
• Discharge of radioactive waste from nuclear sites: setting limits
• Examples of CBRN and HazMat Incidents
• Sub-surface unsuitability screening