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How and when you can seize a vehicle to investigate a waste crime.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators 12 months to get additional qualifications if required, when moving to a new consolidated standard rules permit.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
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 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.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
Standard rules for a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of manufactured topsoil made from waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction.
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is gathering information to understand if the current Search Areas could be suitable to host a GDF.
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