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Standard rules for the accumulation and disposal of radioactive waste from the NORM industrial activity of oil and gas production.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 500 tonnes on site at any time.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage and treatment of waste filter bed media at water and waste water treatment works.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using whole waste tyres in building construction, in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs, for fendering systems and planters, and as crash protection barriers.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
DSS Part A: High Level Requirements and DSS Part B: Technical Specification
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
We work with organisations across the UK that produce radioactive waste.
Exemption, notification, registering and licensing of radioactive substances and radiation generators in the UK.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
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.
An overview of the UK regulatory framework for all aspects of radiological and civil nuclear safety across the UK.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for operators.
Guidance for packaging producers on 2025 recyclability assessments and implications for 2026-2027 modulated fees.
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the recovery of silver from waste photographic and X-ray developer and fixer solutions.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store intact shock absorbers and undeployed airbags in otherwise fully depolluted ELVs on hardstanding.
How to comply with your EPR RSR environmental permit open sources radioactive waste non-nuclear premises.
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 enforcement position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
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