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Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including April 2024.
All guidance documents for the packaging of Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting separately collected household packaging waste at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) when 15 01 waste codes are not in your environmental permit.
When you can store and dewater street sweeping waste without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
Find out when chapters 2 and 4 of the directive apply to a waste incinerator, co-incinerator or small waste incineration plant.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
MCERTS: competency standard for MCERTS inspectors and assistant inspectors - effluent flow monitoring
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.
This describes the performance standards, test procedures and general requirements for manufacturers and developers of environmental data acquisition and handling systems.
For operators storing and repackaging healthcare waste, photographic and chemical wastes from healthcare premises and similar municipal wastes at a named location.
Standard rules to operate non-hazardous sludge biological chemical and physical treatment sites up to 250kte.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
Developing new waste management capability and opportunities to work group-wide as part of a broader integration programme to underpin the NDA’s and nation’s strategy of a more joined-up approach to waste management.
Check if an item of WEEE or a component removed from WEEE is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to apply to become an authorised ship recycling facility and operate legally under the approval.
Managing radioactive waste with geological disposal
T31 exemption allows airports to filter and distill waste aircraft antifreeze fluid to recover monopropylene glycol.
T30 exemption allows you to recover silver from waste produced in connection with printing or photography.
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