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When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected.
The T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, cut or pulverise waste wood and plant matter to make it easier to store and transport, or to convert it for use.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
The U8 exemption allows you to use waste materials (that do not need treating) for a specific purpose to reduce the use of virgin or non-waste materials.
The T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
The T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
The T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
This guidance is for any business or public body which generates, handles or treats waste.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
The T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
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