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Environment Agency regulatory position on when you do not need to monitor emissions from permitted medium combustion plant that are used for back-up generation.
Guidance for packaging producers on 2025 recyclability assessments and implications for 2026-2027 modulated fees.
Local authority permits for Part A (2) installations and small waste incineration plant, under Environmental Permitting Regulations.
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).
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
The Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is the UK’s principal facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.
Understand Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
By getting an approved framework, you’ll be able to show when a material has reached end of waste status.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
The Contracts for Innovation competition provides funding to trial and validate the impacts of resource efficiency solutions in the automotive, chemicals and construction sectors.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Publishing dates for packaging data.
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
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