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This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Use this code to help you follow the rules when you produce or use sewage sludge in agriculture.
These are appropriate measures for waste pre-acceptance, acceptance and tracking at a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
These are appropriate measures for waste storage at a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
When you must report the amount of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) you place on the market and how to do it.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Emissions control related appropriate measures for biological waste treatment.
This guide explains the problems and risks which may come from extreme weather, how to mitigate them and how you can make your reservoir more resilient. You can read each section in isolation, or as a whole document.
The appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WEEE.
Standard rules permit and generic risk assessment for new and existing, low risk, stationary medium combustion plant.
Standard rules for a household waste recycling centre.
You must have a licence to import or export ozone-depleting substances (ODS) to and from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
A summary of the main methods you should use to monitor for particulate matter in ambient air.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
02 wastes are from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing. Your permit lists the 02 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before y…
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
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