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Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
How to manage soil health to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement for your landspreading mobile plant deployment.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept shredded electronic storage media at permitted hazardous waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) sites where waste code 19 02 04* is not on your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using temporary collection points in local communities for householders’ waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread zoo manure to benefit land.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread waste gypsum to benefit land.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and dismantle non-WEEE waste domestic gas meters.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing and cutting waste rubber conveyor belts for reuse: RPS 305
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, depolluting and dismantling of waste motorcycles when holding SR2021 No 12: Vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Details on when waste rules apply to your material, import and export implications and the UK environmental regulators.
Environment Agency regulatory position on treating microbiological laboratory waste by autoclaving before it’s removed from a site.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat food waste from food preparation and consumption at the same premises the food was served and consumed.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and use waste fire extinguishers to train people to fight fires.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and use waste pine trees to restore sand dunes and protect riverbanks.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on drying paper manufacturing wastes to make animal bedding.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the management and disposal of waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and contaminated with asbestos.
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
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