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The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs 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.
Guidance on the monitoring of bioaerosols from stacks, open biofilters and in ambient air.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
Guidance for the aviation sector on how to separate recyclable waste from international catering waste (ICW).
How to meet 'end of waste' status for biomethane produced from organic wastes in a landfill site or anaerobic digestion plant.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
Find out when chapters 2 and 4 of the directive apply to a waste incinerator, co-incinerator or small waste incineration plant.
When recovered non-packaging plastics are no longer waste.
Local authority permits for Part A (2) installations and small waste incineration plant, under Environmental Permitting Regulations.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Environment Agency's regulation of Sizewell A, B and C and how you can find out more about environmental permits and other activities at these nuclear sites.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
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