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What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
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.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
Use this tool to check the code and control for your waste shipment.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
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.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste
About the Deposit Return Scheme and how to apply to be a deposit management organisation.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
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