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How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
How to separate, store, transport and dispose of international catering waste (ICW).
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.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for digestate produced from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Guidance from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households.
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
How to record and report data under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging requirements.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
The safe, secure, and long-term solution for the most hazardous radioactive waste in the UK.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for compost produced from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
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