Waste guidance and position statements
EASR authorisation guidance
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- Technical competence - waste management activities
- Financial provision - waste management activities
- Waste storage and treatment
- Waste motor vehicles
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Composting
- Deployment plan for remedial treatment
- Healthcare waste
- Recovery of waste on land for the purpose of soil improvement
- Waste recovery plans
- Transporting waste
Definition of waste
- Is it waste? Understanding the definition of waste
- Supplementary Guidance to “Is it waste?"
- Definition of waste - Reuse activities and waste regulation
- End-of-Waste - Scrap metal and glass cullet
- End-of-Waste – Aggregates from inert waste
- End-of-Waste – Compost
- End-of-Waste – Digestate
- End-of-Waste – Processed Fuel Oil
- End-of-Waste – Gypsum from waste plasterboard
- End of waste for syngas
Special waste
- WM3 - Waste Classification: Guidance on the classification and assessment of waste
- Consigning special waste
- Mixing, stabilisation and solidification
- Asbestos in demolition waste
- Waste wood
Persistent Organic Pollutant (POPs)
- Persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and POPs
- Class B firefighting foams containing POPs
- FAQs on the Use, Storage, Disposal and Replacement of Class B Firefighting Foam Containing POPs
- Waste upholstered domestic seating containing POPs
- Poly-chlorinated Bi-phenols (PCBs)
Construction and land remediation
- Land remediation and waste management
- Recovery and disposal of waste in quarries
- Promoting the sustainable reuse of greenfield soils in construction
- Guidance for the reuse of Type 1 aggregate
Landfill
- Treatment of waste prior to landfill
- Landfill restoration
- Landfill restoration plan operator notifications
- The ban on landfilling Biodegradable Municipal Waste (scope and testing guidance)
Deposit Return Scheme (DRS)
- Guide to scheme articles, non-scheme articles and non-Scottish articles
- Guide to deposit labelling and signage
Other guidance
- Thermal Treatment of Waste Guidelines
- Interpretation of physico-chemical treatment
- Manufacture and use of biochar from waste
- Permitting of Pyrolysis and Gasification of Waste activities
- Management of forestry waste
- Managing waste during an animal disease outbreak
- Guide to the Code of practice on sampling and reporting at materials facilities
- Guidance on separating material for recycling
- Off shore oil and gas waste
Position statements
- Use of incinerator bottom ash
- Emergency or unscheduled work heat pump systems, refrigeration & air con units
- Storage of RDF and SRF
- MF Transfer stations
- Cold Recycling – Treatment, Storage and Use of Asphalt Waste Containing Coal Tar
- Application of waste to land
- Storage and treatment of litter, straw, manure and slurry from an exotic notifiable animal disease outbreak
- Shredding of WUDS containing POPs at authorised facilities
- Storage of WUDS containing POPs at authorised facilities
- Collection of scheme packaging as part of Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme