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Guidance on assessing methane emissions from the surface of permitted landfill sites.
This guidance explains the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process for organisations who want to submit a nuclear power plant design for assessment.
Publishing dates for packaging data.
Standard rules to allow the operator to undertake mining waste operations on the site of a mine or quarry.
Work out the toxic equivalency factors of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) to calculate their concentration.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
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.
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.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for operators.
The purpose of this document is to provide a best method approach to sampling and analysing emissions from enclosed landfill gas flares.
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
Poster and online artwork for retailers.
Standard rules to operate storage of furnace ready scrap metal for recovery.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
This page provides introductory information on Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW) packages.
This page describes standard package designs for Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW).
How regulators determine fit and proper person status when you apply for approval as a compliance scheme or accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter.
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