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Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the treatment and disposal of invasive non-native plants and associated soil and materials.
This page provides introductory information on High Heat Generating Waste (HHGW).
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
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.
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).
The Contracts for Innovation competition provides funding to trial and validate the impacts of resource efficiency solutions in the automotive, chemicals and construction sectors.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
Understand Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
This page describes the concept of immobilising and encapsulating hazardous materials within a wasteform and how adequate immobilisation can be proven as part of Disposability Assessment submissions.
This page describes the current container design concept for the disposal of High Heat Generating Waste (HHGW).
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
Use the definitions, criteria and evidence given to classify portable and industrial batteries.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when sweeping waste can be stored and bulked before collection for onward recovery and disposal elsewhere
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
Standard rules to operate an asbestos waste transfer station.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is gathering information to understand if the current Search Areas could be suitable to host a GDF.
Guidance on the monitoring of bioaerosols from stacks, open biofilters and in ambient air.
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