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Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 500 tonnes on site at any time.
Environment Agency regulatory position for waste collection authorities, or contracted operators working on their behalf, operating temporary collection sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can temporarily store end of life vehicles (ELVs) at a motor manufacturer’s dealership.
Environment Agency regulatory position on treating microbiological laboratory waste by autoclaving before it’s removed from a site.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day and accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes per year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store waste incapacitant sprays without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of trees or plants affected by disease or pests by burning: RPS 71.
Environment Agency regulatory position on burning dunnage under a Plant Health Notice.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on cleaning and sterilising waste medical instruments containing metal to allow the waste metal to be recovered elsewhere.
For operators of a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day and no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can use combustion units of less than 0.4 megawatts thermal input (aggregated) to burn biogas or biomethane under permit SR2023 No 1.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the capture, treatment, storage and use of carbon dioxide (CO2) from anaerobic digestion (AD) of waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on treating organic distillery waste, waste code 02 07 02 in a wormery.
For a facility with a treatment capacity less than 75 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
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