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This document sets out what you must do if you want to get accreditation from us to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dewater and deposit silt from SUDS without an environmental permit.
This page describes standard package designs for Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW).
Use this service to apply for yearly registration of PCB equipment with the Environment Agency.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site at a specified location.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
Local authority permits for Part A (2) installations and small waste incineration plant, under Environmental Permitting Regulations.
Describes our expectations for leadership and management systems by radioactive substances activity permit holders who are also nuclear site licensees in England and Wales.
Actions companies need to take to export nuclear-related items.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
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).
T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
For operators of a small metal recycling facility accepting no more than 5,000 tonnes of waste each year with no more than 100 tonnes on site at any one time.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
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