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T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection 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.
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.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
Environment Agency regulatory position on waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
Understand the European Community (EC) directive 2006/12/EC6 on waste (Waste Framework Directive).
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.
Guidance on ash sampling strategies, formerly called M4 guidelines for ash sampling and analysis.
End of waste criteria for the production of PFA and FBA for use in bound and grout applications in specified construction and manufacturing uses.
Principles of optimisation in the management and disposal of radioactive waste from radioactive substances activities.
Standard rules to operate storage of furnace ready scrap metal for recovery.
Radioactive substances regulation guidance on the management of the generation and disposal of radioactive waste during the decommissioning of nuclear facilities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
This page describes standard package designs for Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW).
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can temporarily exceed the waste wood storage limit in your environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on producer responsibility obligations relating to fibre-based composite (FBC) and paper and board packaging materials for 2025.
This guidance will help anyone understand their obligations in relation to hazardous waste and the waste hierarchy.
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