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Industry guidance on the interim storage of Higher Activity Waste packages and integrated approach.
How to meet the rules in your permit if you use mobile plant to spread waste to land for agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
Publishing dates for packaging data.
When recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard is no longer waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store intact shock absorbers and undeployed airbags in otherwise fully depolluted ELVs on hardstanding.
Poster and online artwork for retailers.
Standard rules to operate non-hazardous sludge biological chemical and physical treatment sites up to 250kte.
For operators of a small metal recycling facility accepting no more than 5,000 tonnes of waste each year with no more than 100 tonnes on site at any one time.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
This document is aimed at people who design or assess proposals which include a geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) for environmental protection.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using whole waste tyres in building construction, in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs, for fendering systems and planters.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of trees or plants affected by disease or pests by burning: RPS 71.
Find out when chapters 2 and 4 of the directive apply to a waste incinerator, co-incinerator or small waste incineration plant.
You must consider this guidance if you deal with surplus or waste food and drink.
Applications and decisions made under Regulations 9, 10 and 12 of the Justification of Practices involving Ionising Radiation Regulations (JoPIIRR) 2004.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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.
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