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Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
The Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is the UK’s principal facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.
T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site at a specified location.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for reclamation, restoration or land improvement and deployment form.
Standard rules to operate metal recycling site.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
How to calculate and maintain a financial provision for a Category A mining waste facility under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016.
D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
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 the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
Guidance on the monitoring of bioaerosols from stacks, open biofilters and in ambient air.
This guidance sets out a structured approach to the management of landfill gas.
Use the definitions, criteria and evidence given to classify portable and industrial batteries.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
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