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This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
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.
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 vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste mattresses for the purpose of recovery.
Statutory guidance on radioactive contaminated land for local authorities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
Essential information for Welsh communities on how to get involved
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
All guidance documents for the packaging of Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Actions companies need to take to export nuclear-related items.
The T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
The guide highlights key environmental, technical and economic issues to raise the level of understanding and debate around energy from waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can import UK origin naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) waste without a waste shipment consent.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
Guidance on assessing methane emissions from the surface of permitted landfill sites.
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