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How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
How to choose the right waste exemptions for your business, comply with exemption conditions, and know if you need to register.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
Find out when you must charge a minimum of 10 pence for single-use carrier bags, bags you're not required to charge for and the records you must keep and submit.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar places to denature controlled drugs to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Guidance for waste collectors on household recycling requirements in England, which change on 31 March 2026.
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).
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (EPR) must collect and submit packaging data.
Please get in touch if you would like more information about CoRWM, our positions and how we support our stakeholders.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
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.
A T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
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