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Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Environment Agency regulatory position for waste collection authorities, or contracted operators working on their behalf, operating temporary collection sites.
This guidance explains the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process for organisations who want to submit a nuclear power plant design for assessment.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
This document details the requirements for a laboratory undertaking the chemical testing of soil and the procurer of analytical services to the MCERTS performance standard.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to get support if you have to report packaging data or pay a fee under EPR for packaging
The processes that operators need to follow when shipping radioactive sources to and from EU countries.
Putting geological disposal into context
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread waste gypsum to benefit land.
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 store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
Prepare for the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) expansion to energy from waste (EfW) and waste incineration by participating in the voluntary MRV-only period.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage of recyclable waste at collection points by or for charities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
Local authority permits for Part A (2) installations and small waste incineration plant, under Environmental Permitting Regulations.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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