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Guidance about environmental permit conditions for radioactive substances activities on nuclear licensed sites and how operators should comply.
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.
Standard rules for permits covering category 5 sealed radioactive sources.
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 storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on emergency services and armed forces using end of life vehicles (ELVs) and other wastes for training exercises, teaching and public awareness displays.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Guidance on assessing methane emissions from the surface of permitted landfill sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you do not need to monitor emissions from permitted medium combustion plant that are used for back-up generation.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for operators.
This describes the performance standards, test procedures and general requirements for manufacturers and developers of environmental data acquisition and handling systems.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of trees or plants affected by disease or pests by burning: RPS 71.
Design, construction and quality assurance of earthworks in landfill engineering.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for biomethane produced from organic wastes in a landfill site or anaerobic digestion plant.
End of waste criteria for the production of PFA and FBA for use in bound and grout applications in specified construction and manufacturing uses.
U15 exemption allows you to mix ash from burning pig or poultry with slurry or manure, and spread it on farmland to provide the soil with nutrients.
T33 exemption allows you to filter central heating oil from disused tanks so that it can be reused.
T31 exemption allows airports to filter and distill waste aircraft antifreeze fluid to recover monopropylene glycol.
Putting geological disposal into context
Environment Agency's regulation of Sizewell A, B and C and how you can find out more about environmental permits and other activities at these nuclear sites.
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