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T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
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.
These are the appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
How to provide enough storage and keep storage records of organic manures in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
A list of registration charges for Anglian Waterways.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
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.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
You can report serious concerns about your employer to us, if you suspect wrongdoing in an area we regulate.
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
When you need company certification to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and how to get it.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
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