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How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
This page describes standard package designs for Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW).
Guidance for the aviation sector on how to separate recyclable waste from international catering waste (ICW).
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste glass containing other non-hazardous wastes.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of manufactured topsoil made from waste.
Performance standard for stack gas and landfill gas borehole emissions.
This document sets out what you must do if you want to get accreditation from us to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks.
MCERTS: competency standard for MCERTS inspectors and assistant inspectors - effluent flow and event duration monitoring.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for coating of metal and plastic.
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.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
How to calculate the incinerator’s energy efficiency factor so you can apply for and keep R1 recovery status.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
Standard rules for unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction as a deposit for recovery operation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing waste samples for regulation or investigation at sites other than where the samples are tested or analysed.
Environment Agency regulatory position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
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