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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.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
How to provide chemical test data for potentially contaminated soils or landspreading regulated under the environmental permitting regulations.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
View the permit issued for Maple Lodge Sludge Treatment Centre, Rickmansworth under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
The T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
View the application submitted by Bath and North East Somerset Council for Bath Recycling Centre, Bath.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing and using a single closed loop ground source heating and cooling system supplying residential premises.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
These rules allow you to bulk up and temporarily store waste electrical insulating oils away from the site where they were produced.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
The T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for managing clinical waste.
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