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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.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
Registers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) producers, approved exporters, approved authorised treatment facilities and producer compliance schemes.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar places to denature controlled drugs to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Please get in touch if you would like more information about CoRWM, our positions and how we support our stakeholders.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
This code of practice outlines what a court of law might consider as applicable to different types of land.
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.
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).
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