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The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
The purpose of this document is to provide a best method approach to sampling and analysing emissions from enclosed landfill gas flares.
Licensing arrangements for imports of certain nuclear materials into the UK, replacing all previous NTIs on this issue from the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of tyre-derived rubber materials.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, transporting, bulking up and accepting litter from voluntary litter collections.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for landspreading of sewage sludge and deployment form.
Standard rules for using waste to manufacture timber or construction products.
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.
D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
T29 exemption allows farmers, landscapers and other land managers to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings produced during their work.
U5 exemption allows you to store and use biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.
Managing radioactive waste with geological disposal
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for managing clinical waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on dewatering bentonite slurry waste produced by piling works or the construction of retaining and containment walls.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of trees or plants affected by disease or pests by burning: RPS 71.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
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.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in water discharge activities.
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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