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Standard rules to operate vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
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.
D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of food, source segregated waste and mixed municipal waste at a collection point.
U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
The end of waste criteria for the production and use of quality compost from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Standard rules to operate an asbestos waste transfer station.
Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators 12 months to get additional qualifications if required, when moving to a new consolidated standard rules permit.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Standard rules SR2015 No 13: 25kte vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Actions companies need to take to export nuclear-related items.
Who, what, why and where
The processes that operators need to follow when shipping radioactive sources to and from EU countries.
T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
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