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How a designated collection facility (DCF) must manage its separately collected WEEE.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
Exemption, notification, registering and licensing of radioactive substances and radiation generators in the UK.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
Find out when chapters 2 and 4 of the directive apply to a waste incinerator, co-incinerator or small waste incineration plant.
Applications and decisions made under Regulations 9, 10 and 12 of the Justification of Practices involving Ionising Radiation Regulations (JoPIIRR) 2004.
MCERTS: competency standard for MCERTS inspectors and assistant inspectors - effluent flow monitoring
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
SR2015 No 3: metal recycling and WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
By getting an approved framework, you’ll be able to show when a material has reached end of waste status.
Check if an item of WEEE or a component removed from WEEE is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
U15 exemption allows you to mix ash from burning pig or poultry with slurry or manure, and spread it on farmland to provide the soil with nutrients.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting metal shredder residues and post shredder treatment residues for disposal at landfill for non-hazardous waste.
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