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How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
Exemption, notification, registering and licensing of radioactive substances and radiation generators in the UK.
T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept gypsum and cement-based waste without the correct waste codes on your permit.
You must complete and submit this application if you are submitting a notification under the Waste Shipments Regulation.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for coating of metal and plastic.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
This document sets out the performance standard for indicative ambient dust monitors.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
Handbook and software to help assess the risks of radioactively contaminated land exposure for human health.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for reclamation, restoration or land improvement and deployment form.
These rules will allow the operator to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
Sets out changes in terminology in definitions relating to waste reporting obligations.
T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
Know when waste derived biodiesel is no longer waste.
An overview of the UK regulatory framework for all aspects of radiological and civil nuclear safety across the UK.
Industry guidance on the interim storage of Higher Activity Waste packages and integrated approach.
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for certain types of permanently installed continuous water monitors (CWMs) used for the monitoring of treated wastewater discharges from industrial proces…
Standard rules to operate metal recycling site.
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