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To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
How to assess and report B2C and B2B electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) products.
Environment Agency regulatory position on collecting and reporting nation of sale and self-managed organisational waste data for 2024 and 2025.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
When you must report the amount of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) you place on the market and how to do it.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land spreading and deployment form.
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your packaging data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging must submit a methodology. This is also recom…
Environment Agency regulatory position on how to classify excavated waste from street works and utility works when you cannot take samples before excavation.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Guidance for designated collection facilities (DCF) and charities on how to comply with WEEE and waste regulations.
All specifications for the packaging of all Higher Activity Waste (HAW)
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
Guidance on how to use the pollution inventory electronic data capture (PIEDC) system to submit your data.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Unofficial list of waste description codes listed in annexes to the Waste Shipments Regulation.
This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
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