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Waste guidance and position statements

EASR authorisation guidance

For more detail and information applying for EASR authorisations you can explore our EASR pages.

• 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)

• Managing waste lead acid batteries containing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

• Managing waste institutional mattresses containing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Construction and land remediation

• On-site management of excavated peat

• 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)

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

• Off shore oil and gas waste

Position statements

• Use of incinerator bottom ash

• Emergency or unscheduled work to heat pump systems, refrigeration and 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

• Management of Metal Shredder Residue and the MSR Disposal – Notification Form