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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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
Applications and decisions made under Regulations 9, 10 and 12 of the Justification of Practices involving Ionising Radiation Regulations (JoPIIRR) 2004.
This Good Practice Guide (GPG) has been developed by Jacobs on behalf of the NDA to identify and facilitate consistent application of good practice within the nuclear industry regarding the characterisation of solid radioact…
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for reclamation, restoration or land improvement and deployment form.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Sets out changes in terminology in definitions relating to waste reporting obligations.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance on the monitoring of bioaerosols from stacks, open biofilters and in ambient air.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Standard rules SR2015 No 18: metal recycling, vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling facility.
For operators of a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day and no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of food, source segregated waste and mixed municipal waste at a collection point.
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