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We work with organisations across the UK that produce radioactive waste.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of quality outputs from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
D4 exemption allows you to deposit diseased crops where they were grown, when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases or pests.
D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by mechanical treatment at a waste management facility.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Standard rules to operate an asbestos waste transfer station.
T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
The Waste Operations division of Nuclear Waste Services manages the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria and ensures that lower activity waste is managed effectively across the UK.
This guidance sets out a structured approach to the management of landfill gas.
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for flowmeters used for the monitoring of raw water abstraction, treated wastewater discharges from industrial processes, ultraviolet disinfection processe…
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for July 2025
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