Packaging and products
Battery regulations: producer responsibility and take-back
Anyone who places batteries on the UK market for the first time, on their own or inside equipment, is a battery producer under the Waste Batteries and Accumulators...
Environmental compliance for retail and e-commerce businesses
Retailers and online sellers carry producer responsibility for packaging, electricals and batteries they import or brand, must offer WEEE and battery take-back, will host deposit return points from October 2027, and must comply with single-use plastics bans and carrier bag charges.
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Property and development
Biodiversity net gain (BNG) for development in England
Most planning permissions in England must deliver a biodiversity net gain of at least 10%, measured with the statutory biodiversity metric and secured for 30 years....
Packaging and products
Deposit return scheme for drinks containers (from October 2027)
From 1 October 2027 a deposit will be added to single-use drinks containers of 150ml to 3 litres made of PET plastic, aluminium or steel across the UK, refunded when...
Energy and carbon
ESOS Phase 4 (Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme)
ESOS Phase 4 requires every large UK undertaking (250 or more employees, or turnover above £44 million and a balance sheet above £38 million) and its UK group to...
Permits, air and water
F-gas regulations for refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps
Fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases), mainly the HFC refrigerants in chillers, cold rooms, air conditioning, heat pumps and vehicle refrigeration, are controlled in...
Property and development
Minimum energy efficiency standards (MEES) for let property
In England and Wales a landlord cannot let a non-domestic building or a home with an EPC rating below E unless a valid exemption is registered. The government...
Packaging and products
Packaging EPR (extended producer responsibility for packaging)
Packaging EPR makes the businesses that put packaging on the UK market pay the full cost of collecting and managing it when it becomes household waste. You are...
Packaging and products
Plastic packaging tax
Plastic packaging tax is charged on finished plastic packaging components manufactured in or imported into the UK that contain less than 30% recycled plastic. The...
Energy and carbon
SECR reporting (Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting)
SECR reporting requires UK quoted companies, and unquoted companies and LLPs that exceed two of three tests (turnover over £36 million, balance sheet over £18...
Packaging and products
Single-use plastics bans, vapes, wet wipes and carrier bag charges
Each UK nation bans the supply of a list of single-use plastic items, enforced by councils and Trading Standards: plastic cutlery, plates, bowls, trays, balloon...
Reporting and management systems
UK Sustainability Reporting Standards and climate disclosures
The UK Sustainability Reporting Standards, UK SRS S1 (general sustainability) and S2 (climate), are the UK's endorsed versions of the ISSB standards, published on 25...
Waste and resources
Waste carrier, broker and dealer registration (and the move to permits)
Anyone who transports waste as part of their business, arranges for waste to be moved (a broker) or buys and sells waste (a dealer) must be registered with the...
Waste and resources
Waste duty of care and waste transfer notes
The waste duty of care applies to every business and organisation in the UK that produces, carries, keeps, treats or disposes of waste. You must stop waste escaping,...
Packaging and products
WEEE regulations: producers, retailers and online marketplaces
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2013 make anyone who manufactures, imports or rebrands electrical equipment for the UK market a producer who...
Waste and resources
Workplace recycling rules: Simpler Recycling and the devolved regimes
Every UK workplace must now separate recycling and food waste from general waste, but the detail differs by nation. In England, Simpler Recycling has applied to...
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