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The source segregated biodegradable wastes the Environment Agency considers to be generically suitable for biological treatment.
These are the emissions limits and appropriate measures for monitoring emissions to air and water at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
What you must consider when you assess the appropriate measures for your site.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the South East river basin district river basin management plan.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
How the Environment Agency reviews the impact of climate change on the Thames Estuary and updates planned work and timescales.
As a risk management authority (RMA) claim grant-in-aid (GIA) funding, report financial changes and that projects are completed.
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.
These rules will allow the operator to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
Standard rules to allow the operator to undertake mining waste operations on the site of a mine or quarry.
Use this tool to find out if you need to apply for a specified generator simple bespoke or complex bespoke environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and bind crushed clean cathode ray tube (CRT) screen glass or store and use the bound glass material in construction.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can collect non-hazardous waste at a transport hub without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
How to comply with your environmental permit for the surface treatment of metals and plastics by electrolytic and chemical processes.
Explains your permit conditions so you know how to comply with the conditions.
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