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
- 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
- Used tyres, waste tyres
- Receiving hazardous waste or receiving special waste
- Receiving waste or sewage
- Storing waste, wastewater or sewage
- Storage & transport of waste
- Waste and sewage businesses: disposal of sewage sludge
- Disposing of waste by landspreading
- Waste oil, oil disposal
- Anaerobic Digestion
- Balers, compactors, crumbers, granulators and shredders for waste
- Composting
- Recovering chemical substances from waste
- Quality recycling at MRFs
- Plastic Recycling
- Waste incineration plant operated by waste or sewage businesses
- Waste compactors
- Recycling construction materials
- Recycle & reprocessing scrap metals
- Recycling concrete
- Treating hazardous / special waste
- Oil recycling
- Reusing waste cullet in glass manufacture
- Treating & recycling waste vehicles
- Treating & recycling Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
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