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How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
This guidance should be read before making any application to register a boat on Environment Agency waterways.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste fire extinguishers before metal recovery.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
The fundamental objective of radioactive substances regulation and the 10 regulatory principles we apply when carrying out our work.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Standard rules for channel habitat structures made of natural materials occupying up to 100 metres of a main river.
How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
You must have a licence to import or export ozone-depleting substances (ODS) to and from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Assessing appropriate measures for your site, the measures that apply to different types of facilities and implementing measures at new and existing facilities.
These are the appropriate measures for waste treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating chemical waste.
Get approval for your fish pass design when building or making changes to a dam, weir or mill.
How to manage the leachate produced by the waste in your site.
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
A summary of the main programmes and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
Information on the restrictions affecting the navigation on the River Thames.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of quality outputs from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
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