Guidance

Low risk waste positions: construction, demolition and dredging waste, aggregates and soils

The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.

Applies to England

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If the Environment Agency provides a LRWP for an activity, you can carry it out without an environmental permit for a waste operation provided that you meet all the conditions.

The Environment Agency may review its LRWPs. It may decide the activity is no longer suitable for a LRWP or that the conditions need changing. You must regularly check that the LRWP you are benefiting from is still in place.

We have removed ‘Reusing wash waters and treating cement and silt washings at construction sites: LRWP 16’ from this page. We have replaced it with the regulatory position statement (RPS) ‘Treating and using water that contains concrete and silt at construction sites: RPS 235’.

RPS 235 tells you what treatment and uses of waste water are allowed at construction sites without an environmental permit for a waste operation.

Published 20 August 2019
Last updated 21 September 2020 + show all updates
  1. We have removed 'Reusing wash waters and treating cement and silt washings at construction sites: LRWP 16'. We have replaced it with the regulatory position statement (RPS) 'Treating and using water that contains concrete and silt at construction sites: RPS 235'. RPS 235 tells you what treatment and uses of waste water are allowed at construction sites without an environmental permit for a waste operation.

  2. First published.