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Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
The U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
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.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
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.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
All specifications for the packaging of all Higher Activity Waste (HAW)
Environment Agency regulatory position on how to classify excavated waste from street works and utility works when you cannot take samples before excavation.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting metal shredder residues and post shredder treatment residues for disposal at landfill for non-hazardous waste.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
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.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
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.
How to assess and report B2C and B2B electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) products.
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