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The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Details on when waste rules apply to your material, import and export implications and the UK environmental regulators.
How to comply with your EPR RSR environmental permit open sources radioactive waste non-nuclear premises.
Guidance about environmental permit conditions for radioactive substances activities on nuclear licensed sites and how operators should comply.
Essential information on how to get involved
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat food waste from food preparation and consumption at the same premises the food was served and consumed.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
More information on our screening work, and its relevance to the siting of a GDF
What operators need to do in terms of submitting plans for radioactive waste disposal following our exit from Euratom and requirements under Article 37.
The U5 exemption allows you to store and use biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.
How the Environment Agency regulates and monitors Blaydon Quarry landfill.
Local authority regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for waste wood combustion.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of trees or plants affected by disease or pests by burning: RPS 71.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of end of life vehicles (ELVs) that will be used for training at educational establishments.
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is gathering information to understand if the current Search Areas could be suitable to host a GDF.
Industry guidance on the interim storage of Higher Activity Waste packages and integrated approach.
How to manage soil health to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement for your landspreading mobile plant deployment.
Guidance on sampling strategies.
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