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Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
U11 exemption allows you to spread waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
When you must report the amount of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) you place on the market and how to do it.
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.
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.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can treat and dispose of invasive non-native plant material without an environmental permit.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
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