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Guidance for waste collectors on household recycling requirements in England, which change on 31 March 2026.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
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 appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
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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.
If you put EEE on the UK market you must follow rules on both the EEE you sell and the EEE that becomes waste (WEEE).
Local authorities can find out how and when they’ll start to receive funding to manage packaging waste, including actions chief executives need to take.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
Guidance for packaging producers on 2025 recyclability assessments and implications for 2026-2027 modulated fees.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Environment Agency regulatory position on producer responsibility obligations relating to fibre-based composite (FBC) and paper and board packaging materials for 2025.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
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