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Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
This section will help you complete your permit application for a landfill for inert waste, or to deposit waste on land as a recovery activity. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Humber river basin district river basin management plan.
How to decommission an underground storage tank temporarily or permanently and the risks to groundwater.
How to apply for compliance scheme approval, register, take on packaging producer responsibilities and comply.
How to develop monitoring strategies for assessing levels of pollutants in the ambient atmosphere.
Standard rules for the storage of asbestos waste.
Use this code to help you follow the rules when you produce or use sewage sludge in agriculture.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
Who this guidance is for, assessing appropriate measures for your site, the measures that apply to different types of facilities and implementing measures at new and existing facilities.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
Use this tool to find out if you need to apply for a simple bespoke or complex bespoke medium combustion plant permit.
What you need to do when you start planning your landfill site.
How to manage the leachate produced by the waste in your site.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
How reservoir operators should prepare on-site plans so they can respond to emergencies.
Standard rules for temporary scaffolding affecting up to 20 metres length of a main river.
Standard rules for discharges to ground of 1.5 cubic metres per day via a shallow infiltration system not built to British Standard BS6297.
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