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Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
Groups of ODS with their ozone-depleting potential.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
What the reservoir flood maps show, how they were created and how to use them for your assessments.
The U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
The T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
These are the appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
The T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
Check if you're affected by the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM). See what actions you must take each scheme year.
Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.
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