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Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for managing clinical waste.
These are the appropriate measures for waste treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating healthcare waste.
This section summarises the measures to achieve each of the main sets of environmental objectives for water bodies and protected areas set out in the plans.
Information for boaters on the Rivers Welland and Glen.
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
Find out if you need to report packaging data under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
The emissions limits and appropriate measures for monitoring emissions to air and water at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WEEE.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for reclamation, restoration or land improvement and deployment form.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Boating basics including essential knowledge and techniques you need to make sure you enjoy yourselves and stay safe on the water.
The principles to follow when identifying actions to protect and improve the water environment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, transporting, bulking up and accepting litter from voluntary litter collections.
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).
A guide to using the river Wye on the border of England and Wales.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
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