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This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
Registers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) producers, approved exporters, approved authorised treatment facilities and producer compliance schemes.
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.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Guidance from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
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).
Please get in touch if you would like more information about CoRWM, our positions and how we support our stakeholders.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
This code of practice outlines what a court of law might consider as applicable to different types of land.
The T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
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