Landfill operators: environmental permits

How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.

• Landfills for inert waste

  The environmental permitting requirements for landfills for inert waste and how to comply with your permit.

• Deposit waste over existing waste at landfills (overtipping)

  You need approval from the Environment Agency before you deposit waste over completed cells that have permanently stopped taking waste.

• Plan the environmental setting of your site

  What you need to do when you start planning your landfill site.

• What to include in your environmental setting and site design report

  This section will help you complete your permit application for a landfill for inert waste, or to deposit waste on land as a recovery activity. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.

• What to include in your environmental setting and installation design report

  This section will help you develop your permit application for a landfill for hazardous or non-hazardous waste. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.

• What to include in your hydrogeological risk assessment

  This section will help you develop your application for a permit for a landfill or to deposit waste on land as a recovery operation. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.

• How to do a stability risk assessment: landfill sites for inert waste or deposit for recovery activities

  What to include in a stability risk assessment for a landfill site for inert waste or deposit for recovery activity.

• How to do a stability risk assessment: landfill sites for hazardous and non-hazardous waste

  What to include in a stability risk assessment for a landfill site for hazardous and non-hazardous waste.

• Calculate your financial provision

  How to calculate your financial provision, what it needs to cover and how to agree it with the Environment Agency.

• Design and build your landfill site

  The design requirements that you need to meet in your environmental permit application and how to comply with your permit.

• Construction quality assurance (CQA)

  How to create a CQA plan, the CQA qualification requirements you need to meet and how to create a validation report.

• How the Environment Agency makes decisions on landfill engineering

  What the Environment Agency requires from you when you design and construct a landfill site.

• Develop and maintain management plans

  You must manage your operations to prevent or minimise pollution from the activities authorised by your permit.

• Accept the right waste

  How to inspect waste, check paperwork, and sample and test the waste you accept.

• Manage leachate

  How to manage the leachate produced by the waste in your site.

• Manage landfill gas

  You must manage the landfill gas produced by the waste in your site.

• Monitor and report your performance

  What you need to monitor and how to report your performance to meet your permit conditions.

• Review your hydrogeological risk assessment

  What you need to include in your hydrogeological risk assessment and how to structure your report.

• Restore your landfill site

  How to restore your landfill site to meet your permit conditions.

• Close your landfill site

  The standards you must meet to close your landfill site and move it into aftercare.