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A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your non-UK suppliers’ household electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces as defined in the amended waste EEE regulations mu…
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting e-bikes at waste treatment sites under a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) permit or T11 waste exemption.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you do not need to monitor emissions from permitted medium combustion plant that are used for back-up generation.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by vehicle maintenance and dismantling activities.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat food waste from food preparation and consumption at the same premises the food was served and consumed. 
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
We have more than 10 years’ experience of successfully working with our customers to develop solutions across the radioactive waste lifecycle and provide access to the full range of treatment, logistics, and disposal techniq…
All guidance documents for the packaging of Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Waste codes for common wastes produced by mechanical treatment at a waste management facility.
For operators storing and repackaging healthcare waste, photographic and chemical wastes from healthcare premises and similar municipal wastes at a named location.
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