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When recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard is no longer waste.
Details on when waste rules apply to your material, import and export implications and the UK environmental regulators.
The Environment Agency's regulatory approach to perimeter soil gas following publication of the industry code of practice.
Radioactive substances regulation guidance on the management of the generation and disposal of radioactive waste during the decommissioning of nuclear facilities.
Essential information for Welsh communities on how to get involved
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store fly-tipped waste, waste from trash screens and public litter bins without an environmental permit.
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.
This document is aimed at people who design or assess proposals which include a geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) for environmental protection.
Environment Agency regulatory position on treating microbiological laboratory waste by autoclaving before it’s removed from a site.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread waste gypsum to benefit land.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
Standard rules SR2009 No 2: low impact part A installation.
Standard rules to allow the operator to undertake mining waste operations on the site of a mine or quarry.
Standard rules for the storage of furnace ready scrap metal for recovery at a specified location.
How to manage soil health to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement for your landspreading mobile plant deployment.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for electrical furnaces.
How to meet the rules in your permit if you use mobile plant to spread waste to land for agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
How to get support if you have to report packaging data or pay a fee under EPR for packaging
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).
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