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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.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
As a risk management authority (RMA) claim grant-in-aid (GIA) funding, report financial changes and that projects are completed.
How the Environment Agency reviews the impact of climate change on the Thames Estuary and updates planned work and timescales.
Uses of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) not included in the phase down that do not count towards your quota, and rules on labelling, selling and reporting exempt HFCs.
How to calculate the incinerator’s energy efficiency factor so you can apply for and keep R1 recovery status.
Sets out the basis on which the Environment Agency should decide whether or not a river or watercourse is treated as a ‘main river’.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Meeting the standard for stack emissions monitoring sample locations – requirements for measurement sections and sites. This guidance was formerly called M1.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation, transfer and handling.
How you must label fluorinated gas (F gas) products you produce, import, or install.
The standards you must meet to close your landfill site and move it into aftercare.
How to develop monitoring strategies for assessing levels of pollutants in the ambient atmosphere.
How to decommission an underground storage tank temporarily or permanently and the risks to groundwater.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Environment Agency regulatory position on dewatering bentonite slurry waste produced by piling works or the construction of retaining and containment walls.
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