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Local authority regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for waste wood combustion.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
Guidance for packaging producers on 2025 recyclability assessments and implications for 2026-2027 modulated fees.
Sets out changes in terminology in definitions relating to waste reporting obligations.
Document how you’ve collected your non-UK suppliers’ household electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces as defined in the amended waste EEE regulations must submit a me…
Environment Agency's regulation of Sizewell A, B and C and how you can find out more about environmental permits and other activities at these nuclear sites.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
T26 exemption allows small-scale treatment of waste from kitchens using a wormery to produce compost, for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for printing of dry cleaning.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
Performance standard for stack emission monitoring, fugitive emissions and landfill gas borehole emissions.
When recovered non-packaging plastics are no longer waste.
How to comply with your EPR RSR environmental permit open sources radioactive waste non-nuclear premises.
SR2015 No 16: metal recycling site.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
D4 exemption allows you to deposit diseased crops where they were grown, when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases or pests.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
The Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is the UK’s principal facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.
Managing radioactive waste with geological disposal
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