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MCERTS: competency standard for MCERTS inspectors and assistant inspectors - effluent flow monitoring
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.
Standard rules for a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
Putting geological disposal into context
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using BSI PAS 100 or PAS 110 compliant material which does not meet the plastics limit in the relevant resource framework.
Guidance for the aviation sector on how to separate recyclable waste from international catering waste (ICW).
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can temporarily exceed the waste storage limits in your environmental permit.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) 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.
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 Hinkley Point, about EDF’s appeal, how you can find out about environmental permits and other activities at Hinkley Point.
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