Guidance and regulation

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.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 February 2024

You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 22 January 2024

How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 25 August 2023

When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 April 2024

How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 2 February 2022

How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 December 2022

Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 26 April 2024

What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 29 June 2023

This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 August 2023

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.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 December 2022

Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 20 March 2023

How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 29 September 2023

Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 October 2020

Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 2 February 2024

The 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.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 20 July 2022

What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 11 January 2021

Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 31 August 2021

What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 13 March 2024

Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 October 2020

How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 17 January 2024