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Environment Agency regulatory position on storing and compacting waste coffee grounds to make a briquette.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store sealed containers of food waste.
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This document covers the use of geomembranes in landfill engineering and was originally developed with the British Geomembrane Association.
D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
The Environment Agency’s role in the development and regulation of a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste.
T31 exemption allows airports to filter and distill waste aircraft antifreeze fluid to recover monopropylene glycol.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dewater and deposit silt from SUDS without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of end of life vehicles (ELVs) that will be used for training at educational establishments.
You must consider this guidance if you deal with surplus or waste food and drink.
This report concludes that a well-run active site should not pose a health risk, but could still have an impact on mental and physical health.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for operators.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
The Environment Agency's regulatory approach to perimeter soil gas following publication of the industry code of practice.
Case studies of completed measures or measures being progressed in river basin districts from 2015.
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 regulatory position on storing and cutting waste rubber conveyor belts for reuse: RPS 305
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing samples of waste for regulation or investigation other than where the samples are tested or analysed.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing waste aerosol air freshener canisters on premises of washroom services companies and similar hygiene facilities.
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