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Packaging regulations: environmental requirements, recycling
Use the waste returns Generic Operator Returns (GOR) spreadsheet to upload or enter your data online.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Waste Package guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
The T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering environmental issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
How to identify and report harmful trade practices that affect your business when exporting, importing or operating domestically.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
Find out when you need to charge VAT and at what rate if you supply food and drink for the purposes of catering or as a takeaway.
Waste Container guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
All guidance documents for the packaging of Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
The Waste Operations division of Nuclear Waste Services manages the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria and ensures that lower activity waste is managed effectively across the UK.
What to do if your goods are lost, destroyed or stolen under an ATA Carnet.
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