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Environment Agency regulatory position on using waste clay in the construction of slurry lagoons or irrigation/winter storage reservoirs.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in water discharge activities.
Getting to know the geology in your area
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
U15 exemption allows you to mix ash from burning pig or poultry with slurry or manure, and spread it on farmland to provide the soil with nutrients.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
For operators of a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day and no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
MCERTS: competency standard for MCERTS inspectors and assistant inspectors - effluent flow and event duration monitoring.
This document sets out principles and guidance for the assessment of ionising radiation doses to the public from authorised discharges.
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.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
How to comply with your EPR RSR environmental permit open sources radioactive waste non-nuclear premises.
Explains your permit conditions so you know how to comply with the conditions.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of manufactured topsoil made from waste.
This guidance explains the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process for organisations who want to submit a nuclear power plant design for assessment.
Local authority permits for Part A (2) installations and small waste incineration plant, under Environmental Permitting Regulations.
Performance standard for stack gas and landfill gas borehole emissions.
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