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How to assess and report B2C and B2B electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) products.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
How to check if your waste is international catering waste (ICW) and how to store, transport and dispose of it.
The U8 exemption allows you to use waste materials (that do not need treating) for a specific purpose to reduce the use of virgin or non-waste materials.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
Environment Agency regulatory position on how to classify excavated waste from street works and utility works when you cannot take samples before excavation.
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
The S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land spreading and deployment form.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
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.
Guidance on interpreting the legislation on radioactive substances in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
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