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UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
Environment Agency regulatory position on how to classify excavated waste from street works and utility works when you cannot take samples before excavation.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Guidance from 31 March 2026 for waste collection authorities in England on ensuring good waste collection services for households. Â
The Contracts for Innovation competition provides funding to trial and validate the impacts of resource efficiency solutions in the automotive, chemicals and construction sectors.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
Putting geological disposal into context
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land spreading and deployment form.
When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
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.
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