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How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of quality outputs from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
How the Environment Agency meets the Regulators’ Code.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, transporting, bulking up and accepting litter from voluntary litter collections.
What river basin management plans are and their benefits. How they are structured and finding the information you need.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
How to manage the risk of flooding on your campsite, caravan park, holiday park or residential park.
How to comply with emission limit values (ELVs) for hydrogen combustion plant greater than 1 megawatt thermal input (MWth).
How to manage the leachate produced by the waste in your site.
Find out how you can use natural options to reduce flooding in your area, who to contact for advice, and if you can get funding.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Checklists to help you prepare your business for flooding
The fundamental objective of radioactive substances regulation and the 10 regulatory principles we apply when carrying out our work.
When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water: cooling water and heat exchangers.
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.
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