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D4 exemption allows you to deposit diseased crops where they were grown, when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases or pests.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
T26 exemption allows small-scale treatment of waste from kitchens using a wormery to produce compost, for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
This document sets out principles and guidance for the assessment of ionising radiation doses to the public from authorised discharges.
Local authority regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for waste wood combustion.
Design, construction and quality assurance of earthworks in landfill engineering.
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
Standard rules for permits covering category 5 sealed radioactive sources.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
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's regulation of Hinkley Point, about EDF’s appeal, how you can find out about environmental permits and other activities at Hinkley Point.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Environment Agency's regulation of Sizewell A, B and C and how you can find out more about environmental permits and other activities at these nuclear sites.
This document sets out what you must do if you want to get accreditation from us to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks.
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 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 the use of manufactured topsoil made from waste.
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.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
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