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Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) - retailer and wholesaler responsibilities, waste collection and compliance schemes.
Complete if you are applying for a new bespoke permit.
Complete if you are applying for a new standard facilities permit.
Information that must go with waste that falls under article 18 (green list) controls when shipping the waste.
Fill in part C2 if you are applying to change an existing bespoke permit.
Packaging regulations: environmental requirements, recycling
Find out if you must offer free collection of old batteries - batteries you must take back, how to collect and send batteries to be recycled, penalties
Sites notified as materials facilities need to use this combined waste returns spreadsheet to submit quarterly returns to the Environment Agency.
A template to help waste collectors prepare written assessments to collect paper and card with other dry recyclables.
Get the Environment Agency’s opinion on if a material is a by-product or meets 'end of waste' status. The service costs £125 an hour including VAT.
Complete if you are applying to transfer an existing permit. For installations, waste operations and mining waste operations only.
What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
Complete if you are applying to vary (change) an existing permit.
Use this form to register a T11 WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) exemption.
Templates for distributors operating a take-back scheme under the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) regulations.
Complete if you are applying for a new permit, or to change or transfer an existing permit.
Application form for an environmental permit for radioactive substances users.
Complete if you want to surrender an environmental permit for installations, waste operations, mining waste operations, medium combustion plant/specified generator and mobile plant permits.
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