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Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
How operators of nuclear sites in England and Wales should design and carry out an environmental radiological monitoring programme as required by a radioactive substances activity permit. This guidance is also for regulators…
How fusion energy is regulated in England and how to find out about environmental permits and other activities at fusion sites in England.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Environment Agency regulatory position on collecting and reporting nation data, self-managed organisational waste data for 2024 to 2027 and bags data for 2025 to 2027.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
How to develop and maintain a plan for managing radioactive wastes created and disposed of by radioactive substances activity permit holders.
Local authority permits for Part A (2) installations and small waste incineration plant, under Environmental Permitting Regulations.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the treatment and disposal of invasive non-native plants and associated soil and materials.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility.
Performance standards and test procedures for open channel instruments and closed conduit instruments.
How mayoral strategic authorities can incorporate circularity into local growth plans or spatial development strategies.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for coating of metal and plastic.
How to document the way you collect your packaging and packaging waste data - known as your ‘methodology' - as an online marketplace or other producer obligated under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.…
U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
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