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Environment Agency regulatory position on storing lead acid vehicle batteries, cable and gas cylinders at HWRCs when the correct waste codes are not in your permit.
Check if an item of WEEE or a component removed from WEEE is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The T26 exemption allows small-scale treatment of waste from kitchens using a wormery to produce compost, for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
The U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
Guidance to developers of geological disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
An overview of the UK regulatory framework for all aspects of radiological and civil nuclear safety across the UK.
How to meet the rules in your permit if you use mobile plant to spread waste to land for agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
This document contains the performance standards for automatic isokinetic samplers used in the measurement of emissions from industrial chimney stacks, flues and ducts.
This describes the performance standards, test procedures and general requirements for manufacturers and developers of environmental data acquisition and handling systems.
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 of PFA and FBA for use in bound and grout applications in specified construction and manufacturing uses.
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.
Standard rules to operate household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment (no building).
SR2015 No 21: 75kte materials recycling facility.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and physically treat hazardous metal shredder residues without the correct waste codes on your permit.
The requirements for packaging HHGW
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for April 2025
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can import UK origin naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) waste without a waste shipment consent.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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