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T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
Principles of optimisation in the management and disposal of radioactive waste from radioactive substances activities.
Guidance about environmental permit conditions for radioactive substances activities on nuclear licensed sites and how operators should comply.
Explains your permit conditions so you know how to comply with the conditions.
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.
For operators of a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day and no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
These rules will allow the operator to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for reclamation, restoration or land improvement and deployment form.
Standard rules to operate metal recycling site.
Guidance on how to use the pollution inventory electronic data capture (PIEDC) system to submit your data.
Publishing dates for packaging data.
This document covers the use of geomembranes in landfill engineering and was originally developed with the British Geomembrane Association.
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 store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store fly-tipped waste, waste from trash screens and public litter bins without an environmental permit.
This guidance explains how waste from the final stages of nuclear decommissioning is managed to achieve safe, sustainable outcomes for people, the environment and local communities.
How to apply to the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) if you want to submit a nuclear power plant design.
How to meet the rules in your permit if you use mobile plant to spread waste to land for agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
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