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Guidance for businesses preparing for the ban on the sale and supply of single-use vapes from 1 June 2025.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
Register waste exemptions to store, treat, use or dispose of waste. Deregister exemptions you no longer need and update details that have changed.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to choose the right waste exemptions for your business, comply with exemption conditions, and know if you need to register.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How regulators determine fit and proper person status when you apply for approval as a compliance scheme or accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
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).
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (EPR) must collect and submit packaging data.
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.
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