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Advice on how to classify and code wastes from some of the methods used to treat hazardous waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when sweeping waste can be stored and bulked before collection for onward recovery and disposal elsewhere
Use the definitions, criteria and evidence given to classify portable and industrial batteries.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
By getting an approved framework, you’ll be able to show when a material has reached end of waste status.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
For operators storing and repackaging healthcare waste, photographic and chemical wastes from healthcare premises and similar municipal wastes at a named location.
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for coating of metal and plastic.
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.
Sets out changes in terminology in definitions relating to waste reporting obligations.
How to calculate the incinerator’s energy efficiency factor so you can apply for and keep R1 recovery status.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Standard rules to allow storage of wastes to be used in land treatment.
Standard rules SR2009 No 2: low impact part A installation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators time to get additional technical competence qualifications.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
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