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The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
T29 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings by carbon filtration before disposing of them to land.
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.
Understand Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries.
This guidance sets out a structured approach to the management of landfill gas.
Sampling and chemical testing of untreated sewage, treated sewage effluents and trade effluents.
SR2015 No 16: metal recycling site.
For operators of a small metal recycling facility accepting no more than 5,000 tonnes of waste each year with no more than 100 tonnes on site at any one time.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of quality outputs from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
Standard rules SR2015 No 18: metal recycling, vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling facility.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your packaging data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging must submit a methodology. This is also recom…
T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
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