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These are the appropriate measures for waste treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating healthcare waste.
This section will help you develop your application for a permit for a landfill or to deposit waste on land as a recovery operation. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
River conditions, reach closures and restrictions affecting boaters on the River Medway.
How to request a longer timetable for the Environment Agency to assess if your proposal can be ‘duly made’.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Standard rules for constructing an outfall pipe up to 500mm diameter through a headwall into a main river.
How to control intermittent storm discharges from combined sewer overflows and waste water treatment works, and minimise the risk of emergency sewage discharges from sewage pumping stations.
Assessing appropriate measures for your site, the measures that apply to different types of facilities and implementing measures at new and existing facilities.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The convictions you must declare when you apply for a new permit or to transfer a permit.
When you may need to fit an eel pass or screen to a water structure and what to submit if applying for a new licence or environmental permit.
The outcomes that the Environment Agency will work with its partners to achieve along the Thames Estuary by 2100.
How to create a CQA plan, the CQA qualification requirements you need to meet and how to create a validation report.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
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