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Who's responsible for cleaning up contaminated land and how you know if your business is on a contaminated site
Permits for installations, medium combustion plant, specified generator, waste or mining waste operations, water discharge or groundwater activities, or work on or near a main river or sea defence.
Sellafield Ltd is committed to keeping the public informed about operations on the Sellafield site.
The U7 exemption allows you to use effluent from water and waste water treatment plants to clean highway gravel beds where high-quality water is not needed.
The T29 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings before disposing of them to land.
Groups of ODS with their ozone-depleting potential.
It’s a huge moment in one of the site’s most challenging decommissioning programmes.
The T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
The T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
Understand the European Community (EC) Directive 1999/13/EC on the limitation of emissions of volatile organic compounds.
Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
The T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
How to get relief from excise duty on oil used in certain ways using the Industrial Relief Scheme, also known as the Tied Oils Scheme.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
The T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
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