Guidance and regulation

How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 13 January 2023

How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 2 May 2024

When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.

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

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

A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 14 May 2024

When your waste operation does not need a permit but you may need to register.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 10 May 2024

Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2024

This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 26 November 2018

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

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 April 2024

How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 December 2022

The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 2 April 2024

How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 3 April 2023

Registers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) producers, approved exporters, approved authorised treatment facilities and producer compliance schemes.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 May 2024

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

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 26 April 2024

How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 2 November 2017

From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 21 March 2024

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

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 29 June 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

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 deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 16 July 2019