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How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Workplace recycling in England changed on 31 March 2025. Guidance for all businesses, charities and public sector organisations on separating recyclable waste.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
You must identify and classify your waste before you send it for recycling or disposal. This makes sure you or anyone handling your waste deals with it properly.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
Register and pay for exemptions to store, treat, use or dispose of waste. Deregister exemptions you no longer need and update details that have changed.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Technical guidance on how to assess and classify waste.
Types of waste and the maximum amounts you can use in building projects, landscaping or drainage works under a U1 exemption.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors (including retailers).
S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Definition of single-use vapes and reusable vapes, information on regulation and enforcement, and how to recycle vapes.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
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