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U7 exemption allows you to use effluent from water and waste water treatment plants to clean highway gravel beds where high-quality water is not needed.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for reclamation, restoration or land improvement and deployment form.
These rules allow you to bulk up and temporarily store waste electrical insulating oils away from the site where they were produced.
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.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on completing waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a takeback point.
When recovered non-packaging plastics are no longer waste.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance on the monitoring of bioaerosols from stacks, open biofilters and in ambient air.
Guidance to applicants on how the Environment Agency will consider air quality impact assessments from group 3 metals stack emissions from municipal waste incinerators and waste wood co-incinerators.
This page provides introductory information on waste packages for the geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste in the UK.
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Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for printing of flexible packaging.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, transporting, bulking up and accepting litter from voluntary litter collections.
Environment Agency regulatory position on treating solid waste from portable composting toilets at the depot where the toilets were hired.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the capture, treatment, storage and use of carbon dioxide (CO2) from anaerobic digestion (AD) of waste.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for landspreading of sewage sludge and deployment form.
Standard rules to use waste for reclamation, restoration or improvement of land (existing permits only).
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.
The guide highlights key environmental, technical and economic issues to raise the level of understanding and debate around energy from waste.
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