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The convictions you must declare when you apply for a permit for waste activities or installations.
How to apply for a standard rules environmental permit from the Environment Agency.
The environmental permitting requirements for landfills for inert waste and how to comply with your permit.
Ministerial direction relating to determination of environmental permits for new waste incineration facilities in England.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
View a list of environmental permitting applications that have been submitted to the Environment Agency.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Complete if you are applying to vary (change) an existing permit.
The T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Details of fees and charges including information on how to pay.
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering environmental issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
The D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
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