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About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
This page describes how Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW) is transported from interim storage facilities to a GDF.
This page describes the concept of immobilising and encapsulating hazardous materials within a wasteform and how adequate immobilisation can be proven as part of Disposability Assessment submissions.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
Exemption, notification, registering and licensing of radioactive substances and radiation generators in the UK.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and shred electronic storage media containing confidential or sensitive material for data security and destruction only without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of food, source segregated waste and mixed municipal waste at a collection point.
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 and spread zoo manure to benefit land.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread biochar (waste code 19 01 18) to benefit land.
Poster and online artwork for retailers.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
Standard rules to operate metal recycling sites.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
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.
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for certain types of portable water monitors (PWMs).
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for certain types of permanently installed continuous water monitors (CWMs) used for the monitoring of treated wastewater discharges from industrial proces…
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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