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Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread waste gypsum to benefit land.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
Find out how to prepare written assessments to collect paper and card with other dry recyclables. Assessments will be required from March 2025 or March 2026, depending where you collect from.
How to apply for compliance scheme approval, register, take on packaging producer responsibilities and comply.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of waste from clearing blocked sewers.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
Our dedicated Waste Services teams deliver and develop integrated waste management capabilities, support national strategies, and manage customer and supplier relationships across the waste lifecycle.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
Waste codes for common wastes produced by mechanical treatment at a waste management facility.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility.
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