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Details on when waste rules apply to your material, import and export implications and the UK environmental regulators.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, transporting, bulking up and accepting litter from voluntary litter collections.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store intact shock absorbers and undeployed airbags in otherwise fully depolluted ELVs on hardstanding.
Principles of optimisation in the management and disposal of radioactive waste from radioactive substances activities.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
The guide highlights key environmental, technical and economic issues to raise the level of understanding and debate around energy from waste.
Understand Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can import UK origin naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) waste without a waste shipment consent.
Industry guidance on the interim storage of Higher Activity Waste packages and integrated approach.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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 sampling strategies.
Guidance on assessing methane emissions from the surface of permitted landfill sites.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 500 tonnes on site at any time.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day and accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes per year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and physically treat hazardous metal shredder residues without the correct waste codes on your permit.
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