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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.
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.
Definition of single-use vapes and reusable vapes, information on regulation and enforcement, and how to recycle vapes.
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.
Technical guidance on how to assess and classify waste.
U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
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 stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (EPR) must collect and submit packaging data.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
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).
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
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.
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