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Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, treating and using plastic waste coded 16 03 06, when this waste code is not in your environmental permit or waste exemption.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Guidance for local authorities on the consistent use of their litter enforcement powers.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site at a specified location.
Guidance on the application of the regulations and the administrative procedures that will be used by government in reaching justification decisions.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
How to meet 'end of waste' status for biomethane produced from organic wastes in a landfill site or anaerobic digestion plant.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
Use this service to apply for yearly registration of PCB equipment with the Environment Agency.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
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