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Environment Agency regulatory position on using BSI PAS 100 or PAS 110 compliant material which does not meet the plastics limit in the relevant resource framework.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
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 the storage of BSI PAS 100 compliant compost and PAS 110 compliant digestate at the site of production before dispatch to the customer.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Find out when chapters 2 and 4 of the directive apply to a waste incinerator, co-incinerator or small waste incineration plant.
This guidance is to understand the European Community (EC) Directive 2006/12/EC on waste, as it relates to permitting waste operations in England and Wales.
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is gathering information to understand if the current Search Areas could be suitable to host a GDF.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can temporarily exceed the waste wood storage limit in your environmental permit.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
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.
This page provides introductory information on High Heat Generating Waste (HHGW).
This page gives an overview of Disposability Assessment, its aims and how it supports the safe management of Higher Activity Radioactive Waste (HAW) in the UK.
D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
The Environment Agency’s role in the development and regulation of a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of tyre-derived rubber materials.
When recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard is no longer waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can treat residual mixed municipal waste by aerobic digestion at the place the waste was produced.
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