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Environment Agency regulatory position on scattering or burying pet ash at a pet cemetery which is registered with the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility (MRF).
Environment Agency regulatory position on using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction.
How to assess the impact of a flood risk activity and decide whether it supports the objectives of your local River Basin Management Plan.
General management appropriate measures and the process they apply to.
Check if an item of WEEE or a component removed from WEEE is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
The additional appropriate measures for monitoring emissions from regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment of WTEE.
Use the definitions, criteria and evidence given to classify portable and industrial batteries.
How to comply with your EPR RSR environmental permit open sources radioactive waste non-nuclear premises.
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
For operators of a small metal recycling facility accepting no more than 5,000 tonnes of waste each year with no more than 100 tonnes on site at any one time.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
The Environment Agency’s aims and objectives for Thames Estuary 2100.
These are the appropriate measures for emissions control at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
Check if you need to pay drainage charges, how much they are and how to pay.
How the Environment Agency uses your personal information in services to support environmental permitting.
How regulators determine fit and proper person status when you apply for approval as a compliance scheme or accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter.
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
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