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For operators storing and repackaging healthcare waste, photographic and chemical wastes from healthcare premises and similar municipal wastes at a named location.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to meet the rules in your permit if you use mobile plant to spread waste to land for agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
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).
How the Environment Agency uses your personal information in services to support environmental permitting.
These are the maximum uncertainty values to assess whether periodic measurement results comply with emission limit values in environmental permits (formerly part of M2).
Environment Agency regulatory position on burning waste particle board off-cuts (waste code 03 01 05) as a fuel in a small appliance.
View the environmental permit issued for Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, Ellesmere Port under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
Guidance for individuals who are registered on the MCERTS personnel competency scheme for manual stack emissions monitoring.
View the application submitted by GAP Group Limited for GAP Group Limited – Norwich, Norwich.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can use a mobile boiler that is a MCP without an environmental permit.
Check what activities and locations apply to the byelaws.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can use drop-in fuels in combustion plant that are permitted to use gas oil.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
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