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Environment Agency regulatory position on storing lead acid vehicle batteries, cable and gas cylinders at HWRCs when the correct waste codes are not in your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
How to assess the impact of a flood risk activity and decide whether it supports the objectives of your local River Basin Management Plan.
The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
View the application submitted by Geopura Ltd for HyTilbury, Tilbury.
View the application submitted by Nuclear Restoration Services Limited, Harwell Site, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX10 0DF.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
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.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.
The monitoring, record keeping and reporting you must do and how you’ll be regulated.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day and accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes per year.
For a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day accepting no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of manufactured topsoil made from waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on producer obligations to assess the recyclability of household packaging supplied between 1 January and 30 June 2025.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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