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The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
How regulators determine fit and proper person status when you apply for approval as a compliance scheme or accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter.
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 comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
The requirements for packaging LHGW
Sets out changes in terminology in definitions relating to waste reporting obligations.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
The UK’s policy on the import and export of radioactive waste and spent fuel has not changed, but there are some changes to the processes that operators need to follow.
Principles of optimisation in the management and disposal of radioactive waste from radioactive substances activities.
When recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard is no longer waste.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
These rules allow you to bulk up and temporarily store waste electrical insulating oils away from the site where they were produced.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread biochar (waste code 19 01 18) to benefit land.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for the manufacture of coating materials.
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