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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Understand which wipes will be banned, when plastic wet wipes can still be sold, and how the ban will be enforced.

  • How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.

  • This code of practice outlines what a court of law might consider as applicable to different types of land.

  • 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.

  • How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.

  • How to meet 'end of waste' status for digestate produced from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.

  • Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.

  • T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.

  • Guidance for manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers.

  • How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.

  • Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.

  • How to separate, store, transport and dispose of international catering waste (ICW).

  • 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 submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.

  • Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.

  • This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.

  • You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.