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For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
When you can store and treat asphalt waste without an environmental permit for a waste operation, installation or mobile plant from the Environment Agency.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store sealed containers of food waste.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in water discharge activities.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
Standard rules to allow storage of wastes to be used in land treatment.
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
SR2015 No 3: metal recycling and WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of food, source segregated waste and mixed municipal waste at a collection point.
This page contains Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) Waste Package Specifications and Guidance for waste packages destined for geological disposal.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
The T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance on how to use the pollution inventory electronic data capture (PIEDC) system to submit your data.
Standard rules to operate an inert and excavation waste transfer station with treatment (existing permits only).
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
The T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
This guidance is to understand the European Community (EC) Directive 2006/12/EC on waste, as it relates to permitting waste operations in England and Wales.
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