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What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
Understand what drinks businesses need to do under the Deposit Return Scheme from 1 October 2027.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
Find out when you must charge a minimum of 10 pence for single-use carrier bags, bags you're not required to charge for and the records you must keep and submit.
If you put EEE on the UK market you must follow rules on both the EEE you sell and the EEE that becomes waste (WEEE).
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
Definition of single-use vapes and reusable vapes, information on regulation and enforcement, and how to recycle vapes.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended producer responsibility (EPR) packaging must collect and submit packaging data.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
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