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Standard rules for permits covering category 5 sealed radioactive sources.
These rules will allow the operator to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
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.
Prepare for the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) expansion to energy from waste (EfW) and waste incineration by participating in the voluntary MRV-only period.
How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for managing clinical waste.
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 when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
What businesses need to do to import ‘relevant’ nuclear materials into the UK.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
Environment Agency regulatory position on producer responsibility obligations relating to fibre-based composite (FBC) and paper and board packaging materials for 2025.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
Applications and decisions made under Regulations 9, 10 and 12 of the Justification of Practices involving Ionising Radiation Regulations (JoPIIRR) 2004.
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 ash sampling strategies, formerly called M4 guidelines for ash sampling and analysis.
This guidance sets out a structured approach to the management of landfill gas.
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for flowmeters used for the monitoring of raw water abstraction, treated wastewater discharges from industrial processes, ultraviolet disinfection processe…
Guidance on assessing methane emissions from the surface of permitted landfill sites.
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