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How you can sample and test IBAA as an alternative to a full assessment using the WM3 waste classification technical guidance.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
The environmental permitting requirements for landfills for inert waste and how to comply with your permit.
Use this service to notify the Environment Agency if you plan to construct a new or substantially enlarge an existing silage, slurry or agricultural fuel oil store, or store field silage on a new site.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
Information for boaters on the River Nene.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
How to assess and report B2C and B2B electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) products.
When you must report the amount of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) you place on the market and how to do it.
Emissions control related appropriate measures for biological waste treatment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing waste samples for regulation or investigation at sites other than where the samples are tested or analysed.
Guidance and information on flood risk management and surface water management.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for compost produced from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Use this form to transfer the whole of your abstraction or impounding licence to someone else.
Environment Agency regulatory position on collecting and reporting nation of sale, self-managed organisational waste and plastic and paper bags data for 2024 and 2025.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that apply to regulated facilities permitted to treat or transfer separate collections of waste batteries.
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).
The appropriate measures for waste storage and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of waste batteries.
The design requirements that you need to meet in your environmental permit application and how to comply with your permit.
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