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These are the appropriate measures for waste treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating healthcare waste.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of industrial hydrogen production from methane or refinery fuel gas with carbon capture for storage.
This section will help you develop your permit application for a landfill for hazardous or non-hazardous waste. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.
17 waste codes are construction and demolition wastes (including excavated soil from contaminated sites). Your permit lists the 17 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before you start section.
Permitting of flares at onshore oil and gas sites, EU emissions trading system (ETS) and flares, and best available techniques (BAT) to design and operate the flaring system.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
The convictions you must declare when you apply for a new permit or to transfer a permit.
What to do if you see a bloom of algae in a river, lake or the sea.
This document sets out principles and guidance for the assessment of ionising radiation doses to the public from authorised discharges.
View the application submitted by Refuels Limited for Refuels Limited, Avonmouth.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
MCERTS: competency standard for MCERTS inspectors and assistant inspectors - effluent flow monitoring
Standard rules SR2015 No 13: 25kte vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Standard rules for temporary storage on a flood plain of a main river.
Standard rules for channel habitat structures made of natural materials occupying up to 100 metres of a main river.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day and accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes per year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of food, source segregated waste and mixed municipal waste at a collection point.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
A guide to using the river Wye on the border of England and Wales.
Helps you find the information you need in the river basin management plans (RBMPs).
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