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Consultation opens on Fornax permit draft decision
Permits & Licensing

Consultation opens on Fornax permit draft decision

  • By Environment Agency
  • 21 Oct 2026
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Permits & Licensing

Waste exemptions: new rules from January 2027

  • By Environment Agency
  • 21 Oct 2026
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Digital Waste Tracking

Digital waste tracking: check if you need to report the waste you receive

  • By Defra
  • 19 Oct 2026
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WEEE & Batteries

EU Batteries Regulations in Northern Ireland

  • By Defra
  • 17 Oct 2026
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Construction & Demolition

Environment Agency consultation on a Resource Framework for Aggregate from Inert Waste

  • By Environment Agency
  • 16 Oct 2026
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Construction & Demolition

Updated: Use of manufactured topsoil: RPS 190

  • By Environment Agency
  • 12 Oct 2026

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UK statistics on waste

  • Data & Insights
  • By Defra
  • 23 Sept 2026

Figures compiled on the total waste generated for the whole of the UK.

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Joint statement on United Kingdom-Netherlands circular economy finance collaboration
  • 23 Jun 2026
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Sign in to your local authority payments account
  • 13 Aug 2026
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Government response to the Office for Environmental Protection review of Environment Agency inspections of waste operations and installations in England
  • 15 Sept 2026
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Register for EPR for packaging: create your registration file
  • 10 Sept 2026
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Storing waste PFOA-containing firefighting foams and wastes from their decontamination and replacement: RPS 376
  • 7 Sept 2026
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Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in the UK
  • 1 Sept 2026
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  • Taxes & Charges
  • 28 Aug 2026

Preparing to use a mass balance approach for Plastic Packaging Tax

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Minimum certification requirements for a mass balance approach for Plastic Packaging Tax
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Quality report: Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT)
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Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT) Statistics

Policy & Regulation

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UK Emissions Trading Scheme scope expansion: waste
  • Taxes & Charges
  • 26 Aug 2026

The UK ETS Authority is seeking views on the implementation of the expansion of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme to energy from waste and waste incineration.

Assess packaging recyclability: recyclability assessment methodology (RAM) 2027
  • 20 Aug 2026
Environmental Indicator Framework Theme J (Resource Use and Waste)
  • 19 Aug 2026
Data for Theme J: Resource Use and Waste
  • 19 Aug 2026

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Report packaging data: create your reporting file
  • Packaging EPR
  • 19 Aug 2026

How to create a packaging data file for extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging – includes examples, a tool to set up your file, and a specification for the correct codes to use.

Reforming the packing waste recycling note (PRN) system
  • 14 Aug 2026
The Environment Agency's regulation of waste pneumatic tyres and their export
  • 13 Aug 2026
Enforcement and sanctions policy updates on new water and waste enforcement powers
  • 10 Aug 2026

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Using inverse dispersion modelling to quantify methane emissions from landfills

  • Landfill
  • By Environment Agency
  • 7 Aug 2026

Investigates how a technique known as inverse dispersion modelling could be used to estimate the amount of methane released from landfill sites.

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Landfill methane: measurement and metrics: supplementary report

  • Landfill
  • By Environment Agency
  • 7 Aug 2026

Continues the Environment Agency’s work on measuring methane emissions from landfills

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Temporary waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE) storage due to national treatment capacity constraints: RPS 375

  • Policy & Regulation
  • By Environment Agency
  • 31 Jul 2026

Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can exceed storage capacity at permitted or unpermitted sites in response to current national treatment capacity constraints for WTEE.

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Download industrial emissions and waste transfer (UK PRTR) data

  • News
  • By Defra
  • 24 Jul 2026

Annual datasets for industrial emissions and waste transfer from the UK Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR).

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The Environmental Permitting (Waste Controlling or Transporting) and Relevant Functions of Primary Authorities (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026

  • Permits & Licensing
  • By legislation.gov.uk
  • 22 Jul 2026

New law: the Environmental Permitting (Waste Controlling or Transporting) and Relevant Functions of Primary Authorities (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026 was made on 22 July 2026.

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