Waste exemptions

Guidance and regulation

Register your waste exemptions
- Detailed guide
- 21 October 2026
- Environment Agency
Waste: environmental permits
- Detailed guide
- 12 February 2026
- Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
U1: using waste in construction
- Detailed guide
- 21 October 2026
- Environment Agency
S2: storing waste at a secure site
- Detailed guide
- 21 October 2026
- Environment Agency
D7: burning plant and untreated wood waste where it's produced
- Detailed guide
- 21 October 2026
- Environment Agency

Suspended prison term for skip-hire boss
- 11 August 2026
- Environment Agency
- Press release
Essex skip-hire boss and firm plead guilty to waste crime charges
- 8 April 2026
- Environment Agency
- Press release
Landowner to pay £31,000 for landscaping Cornish SSSI with waste
- 25 November 2025
- Natural England and Environment Agency
- Press release
Cornwall man must repay £72,500 for running illegal waste site
- 30 October 2025
- Environment Agency
- Press release
Two men prosecuted for dumping waste in village
- 25 July 2025
- Environment Agency
- Press release

Environment Agency charge proposals for waste crime and hourly rates
- 15 May 2026
- Environment Agency
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 20 January 2025
Reducing crime at sites handling waste, and introducing fixed penalties for waste duty of care
- 6 October 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Welsh Government
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 26 March 2018
Environmental permitting: standard rules consultation no 21
- 24 August 2020
- Environment Agency
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 31 January 2020
Reforming the waste exemptions system
- 15 July 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper