diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Internal/WebHost.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Internal/WebHost.cs
index 0dbc256180..5d49f97aaf 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Internal/WebHost.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Internal/WebHost.cs
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Features;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
-using Microsoft.Extensions.PlatformAbstractions;
 
 namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Internal
 {
@@ -165,10 +164,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Internal
                 logger.ApplicationError(ex);
 
                 // Generate an HTML error page.
-                var runtimeEnv = _applicationServices.GetRequiredService<IRuntimeEnvironment>();
                 var hostingEnv = _applicationServices.GetRequiredService<IHostingEnvironment>();
                 var showDetailedErrors = hostingEnv.IsDevelopment() || _options.DetailedErrors;
-                var errorBytes = StartupExceptionPage.GenerateErrorHtml(showDetailedErrors, runtimeEnv, ex);
+                var errorBytes = StartupExceptionPage.GenerateErrorHtml(showDetailedErrors, ex);
 
                 return context =>
                 {
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Startup/StartupExceptionPage.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Startup/StartupExceptionPage.cs
index b65709919c..41d11cef68 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Startup/StartupExceptionPage.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/Startup/StartupExceptionPage.cs
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting
         private static readonly string _errorExceptionFormatString = GetResourceString("GenericError_Exception.html");
         private static readonly string _errorFooterFormatString = GetResourceString("GenericError_Footer.html");
 
-        public static byte[] GenerateErrorHtml(bool showDetails, IRuntimeEnvironment runtimeEnvironment, Exception exception)
+        public static byte[] GenerateErrorHtml(bool showDetails, Exception exception)
         {
             // Build the message for each error
             var builder = new StringBuilder();
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting
             }
 
             // Generate the footer
-            var footer = showDetails ? GenerateFooterEncoded(runtimeEnvironment) : null;
+            var footer = showDetails ? GenerateFooterEncoded() : null;
 
             // And generate the full markup
             return Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, _errorPageFormatString, builder, rawExceptionDetails, footer));
@@ -230,8 +230,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting
             }
         }
 
-        private static string GenerateFooterEncoded(IRuntimeEnvironment environment)
+        private static string GenerateFooterEncoded()
         {
+            var environment = PlatformServices.Default.Runtime;
             var runtimeType = HtmlEncodeAndReplaceLineBreaks(environment.RuntimeType);
 #if NETCOREAPP1_0 || NETSTANDARD1_3
             var systemRuntimeAssembly = typeof(System.ComponentModel.DefaultValueAttribute).GetTypeInfo().Assembly;
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/WebHostBuilder.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/WebHostBuilder.cs
index caeb3528f8..5d2216d919 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/WebHostBuilder.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting/WebHostBuilder.cs
@@ -133,8 +133,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting
         {
             _options = new WebHostOptions(_config);
 
-            var defaultPlatformServices = PlatformServices.Default;
-            var appEnvironment = defaultPlatformServices.Application;
+            var appEnvironment = PlatformServices.Default.Application;
             var contentRootPath = ResolveContentRootPath(_options.ContentRootPath, appEnvironment.ApplicationBasePath);
             var applicationName = _options.ApplicationName ?? appEnvironment.ApplicationName;
 
@@ -174,9 +173,6 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting
             // Ensure object pooling is available everywhere.
             services.AddSingleton<ObjectPoolProvider, DefaultObjectPoolProvider>();
 
-            services.AddSingleton(defaultPlatformServices.Application);
-            services.AddSingleton(defaultPlatformServices.Runtime);
-
             if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(_options.ServerAssembly))
             {
                 // Add the server
diff --git a/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Tests/Fakes/RuntimeEnvironment.cs b/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Tests/Fakes/RuntimeEnvironment.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index 05cdeea772..0000000000
--- a/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Tests/Fakes/RuntimeEnvironment.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) .NET Foundation. All rights reserved.
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
-
-using Microsoft.Extensions.PlatformAbstractions;
-
-namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Fakes
-{
-    public class RuntimeEnvironment : IRuntimeEnvironment
-    {
-        public string OperatingSystem { get; } = "TestOs";
-
-        public string OperatingSystemVersion { get; } = "TestOsVersion";
-
-        public string RuntimeArchitecture { get; } = "TestArch";
-
-        public string RuntimeType { get; } = "TestRuntime";
-
-        public string RuntimeVersion { get; } = "TestRuntimeVersion";
-
-        public string RuntimePath { get; } = "TestRuntimePath";
-
-        public Platform OperatingSystemPlatform => Platform.Unknown;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Tests/WebHostBuilderTests.cs b/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Tests/WebHostBuilderTests.cs
index 5f7a1234a1..c503eeb3a1 100644
--- a/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Tests/WebHostBuilderTests.cs
+++ b/test/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Tests/WebHostBuilderTests.cs
@@ -440,9 +440,6 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting
 
             var hostingEnv = host.Services.GetService<IHostingEnvironment>();
             Assert.Equal("Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Tests", hostingEnv.ApplicationName);
-            var appEnv = host.Services.GetService<IApplicationEnvironment>();
-            Assert.Equal(PlatformServices.Default.Application.ApplicationName, appEnv.ApplicationName);
-            Assert.Equal(PlatformServices.Default.Application.ApplicationBasePath, appEnv.ApplicationBasePath);
         }
 
         [Fact]
@@ -457,9 +454,6 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting
 
             var hostingEnv = host.Services.GetService<IHostingEnvironment>();
             Assert.Equal("Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Tests.NonExistent", hostingEnv.ApplicationName);
-            var appEnv = host.Services.GetService<IApplicationEnvironment>();
-            Assert.Equal(PlatformServices.Default.Application.ApplicationName, appEnv.ApplicationName);
-            Assert.Equal(PlatformServices.Default.Application.ApplicationBasePath, appEnv.ApplicationBasePath);
         }
 
         [Fact]
@@ -474,9 +468,6 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting
 
             var hostingEnv = host.Services.GetService<IHostingEnvironment>();
             Assert.Equal("Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Tests.NonExistent", hostingEnv.ApplicationName);
-            var appEnv = host.Services.GetService<IApplicationEnvironment>();
-            Assert.Equal(PlatformServices.Default.Application.ApplicationName, appEnv.ApplicationName);
-            Assert.Equal(PlatformServices.Default.Application.ApplicationBasePath, appEnv.ApplicationBasePath);
         }
 
         [Fact]