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When you must report the amount of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) you place on the market and how to do it.
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…
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
The T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
Guidance for EEE producers on how to accurately report the weight of EEE they place on the market under the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) regulations.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
We have more than 10 years’ experience of successfully working with our customers to develop solutions across the radioactive waste lifecycle and provide access to the full range of treatment, logistics, and disposal techniq…
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
What businesses need to do to import ‘relevant’ nuclear materials into the UK.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators 12 months to get additional qualifications if required, when moving to a new consolidated standard rules permit.
Unofficial list of waste description codes listed in annexes to the Waste Shipments Regulation.
The U12 exemption allows landscapers, farmers and growers to spread mulch as a protective covering onto land around trees, bushes or plants.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
The D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
Sets out changes in terminology in definitions relating to waste reporting obligations.
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