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Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
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.
Assessing the appropriate measures that will apply to a permitted facility that handles biowaste.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Guidance on how to use the pollution inventory electronic data capture (PIEDC) system to submit your data.
How to import, export, or manufacture pre-charged equipment containing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in Great Britain.
These are the appropriate measures for waste pre-acceptance, acceptance and tracking at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste. They do not apply when waste will be rece…
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
The regulations farmers and land managers must follow when storing more than 1,500 litres of agricultural fuel oil, such as red diesel and white diesel.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
As a risk management authority (RMA) you can appraise your FCERM project, prepare your business case and submit it for technical and financial approval.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion treatment capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes each year.
How to manage the leachate produced by the waste in your site.
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