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Waste

Your waste responsibilities and how to deal with waste legally.

Moving waste

  • Register or renew as a waste carrier/broker/dealer
  • Sending waste overseas
  • Waste export controls tool 
  • Coding and classifying wastes

Waste Exemptions

  • Waste exemptions  
  • Low risk waste

Hazardous Waste

  • What is hazardous waste?
  • Register or renew as a producer
  • Moving hazardous waste
  • Receiving hazardous waste

Waste Returns

  • National Operator Waste Returns
  • Hazardous Waste Consignee Returns
  • Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme Returns
  • Producer Returns

Types of Waste

  • Agriculture
  • Batteries
  • Gypsum and plasterboard
  • Packaging 
  • WEEE
  • more waste types

Your Responsibilities

  • Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011
  • Duty of Care
  • Landfilling waste
  • Producer responsibility
  • Mobile treatment permitting
  • Recycling overseas
  • Waste directives

Waste Directory

Find your nearest waste site

External links

  • Defra - Review of waste policy

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Related links

  • Environmental permitting
  • Public registers
  • Agricultural waste
  • Waste data and information
  • Flycapture
  • Modernising waste regulation

Creating a better place

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Author: The Environment Agency | enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk
Last updated: 01 May 2013