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This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Document how you’ve collected your non-UK suppliers’ household electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces as defined in the amended waste EEE regulations must submit a me…
The processes that operators need to follow when shipping radioactive sources to and from EU countries.
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 sweeping waste can be stored and bulked before collection for onward recovery and disposal elsewhere
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for flowmeters used for the monitoring of raw water abstraction, treated wastewater discharges from industrial processes, ultraviolet disinfection processe…
Prepare for the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) expansion to energy from waste (EfW) and waste incineration by participating in the voluntary MRV-only period.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
Environment Agency enforcement position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
T19 exemption allows small-scale physical and chemical treatment of waste edible oils and fat to produce fuel.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for printing of dry cleaning.
The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
This guidance sets out a structured approach to the management of landfill gas.
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