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This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
Emissions control related appropriate measures for biological waste treatment.
The basic odour control measures you must use for any regulated activity.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
How the Environment Agency and its partners will maintain and upgrade flood defences in the Thames Estuary to adapt to rising sea levels.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
The environmental permitting requirements for landfills for inert waste and how to comply with your permit.
You can use the voluntary remediation advice service to get more detailed site-specific regulatory advice where land contamination has impacted on controlled waters.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility and how to operate legally under the approval.
How to use the maps to find out if you are at risk of flooding from surface water.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
How you can sample and test IBAA as an alternative to a full assessment using the WM3 waste classification technical guidance.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
From the 1 April 2026 you must pay the Environment Agency (greenhouse gas emissions) charges for 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027.
Guidance and information on flood risk management and surface water management.
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