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T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
The environmental permits and permissions you need for onshore oil and gas exploration and extraction in England.
Calculate the annual nitrogen and phosphorus emissions from your livestock. Report the data to the Environment Agency.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day and accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes per year.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance setting out the standards that continuous ambient monitoring systems and low-cost air quality sensor systems need to meet.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
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).
Environment Agency regulatory position on scattering or burying pet ash at a pet cemetery which is registered with the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
For operators storing and repackaging healthcare waste, photographic and chemical wastes from healthcare premises and similar municipal wastes at a named location.
Standard rules to allow storage of wastes to be used in land treatment.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
View the application submitted by Severn Trent Water Limited for Strongford Sewage Treatment Works, Stoke-on-Trent.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
View the application submitted by FCC Recycling (UK) Limited for Knottingley Process Plant, Knottingley.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
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