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Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
Understand Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries.
Standard rules to operate metal recycling site.
These rules will allow the operator to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
Standard rules SR2015 No 13: 25kte vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
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 using BSI PAS 100 or PAS 110 compliant material which does not meet the plastics limit in the relevant resource framework.
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.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can burn waste wood during community events such as Guy Fawkes’ bonfires and Scout and Guide campfires.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Standard rules for the accumulation and disposal of radioactive waste from the NORM industrial activity of oil and gas production.
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.
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage of recyclable waste at collection points by or for charities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
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