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Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
Guidance for the aviation sector on how to separate recyclable waste from international catering waste (ICW).
Actions companies need to take to export nuclear-related items.
What businesses need to do to import ‘relevant’ nuclear materials into the UK.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting metal shredder residues and post shredder treatment residues for disposal at landfill for non-hazardous waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can burn waste wood during community events such as Guy Fawkes’ bonfires and Scout and Guide campfires.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
Sets out end of waste criteria for the production and use of processed fuel oil from waste lubricating oil.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and shred electronic storage media containing confidential or sensitive material for data security and destruction only without an environmental permit.
Standard rules to operate non-hazardous sludge biological chemical and physical treatment sites up to 250kte.
Standard rules to allow the operator to undertake mining waste operations on the site of a mine or quarry.
For operators of a small metal recycling facility accepting no more than 5,000 tonnes of waste each year with no more than 100 tonnes on site at any one time.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and physically treat hazardous metal shredder residues without the correct waste codes on your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.
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