Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Waste sector guidance
This guidance is for businesses that transport, store, treat or dispose of waste from domestic, commercial or industrial premises.
- Air pollution
- Carbon reduction and efficiency
- Emergency response
- Environmental management
- Land
- Materials and equipment
- Nuisances
- Permits and licences
- Trade associations and BSOs
- Transport
- Waste
- Water
- Animal by-products and food waste
- Asbestos
- Burning waste - What you need to know
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- End of life vehicles (ELVs)
- Import and export of waste
- Operating your landfill site
- Hazardous / special waste
- Waste carriers, brokers and dealers
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Waste site directories
- Receiving hazardous waste or receiving special waste
- Receiving waste or sewage
- Storing waste, wastewater or sewage
- Transporting waste, wastewater or sewage
- Waste & sewage landfill site operators
- Storage & transport of waste
- Anaerobic digestion
- Balers, compactors, crumbers, granulators and shredders for waste
- Burning waste oil as fuel
- Composting
- Chipping wood & other plant material
- Composting catering waste
- Composting green waste
- Composting leachate
- Crushing bricks, tiles, concrete & other materials
- Crushing or grinding waste tiles or other ceramics
- Energy-from-waste at waste or sewage sites
- Oil recycling
- Used tyres, waste tyres
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https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/waste-duty-care-responsibilities
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