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This document details the requirements for a laboratory undertaking the chemical testing of soil and the procurer of analytical services to the MCERTS performance standard.
This describes the performance standards, test procedures and general requirements for manufacturers and developers of environmental data acquisition and handling systems.
Details on when waste rules apply to your material, import and export implications and the UK environmental regulators.
How to comply with your standard rules environmental permit for the keeping and use of Category 5 sealed radioactive sources.
When recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard is no longer waste.
How to comply with your EPR RSR environmental permit open sources radioactive waste non-nuclear premises.
Standard rules to operate a clinical waste and healthcare waste transfer station at a specified location.
Standard rules to store and transfer clinical waste and healthcare waste.
Standard rules for the use of waste for reclamation, restoration or improvement of land (up to 50kte).
These rules allow you to bulk up and temporarily store waste electrical insulating oils away from the site where they were produced.
Standard rules for the accumulation and disposal of radioactive waste from the NORM industrial activity of oil and gas production.
For a facility with a treatment capacity less than 75 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
For a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day accepting no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
Statutory guidance on radioactive contaminated land for local authorities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste glass containing other non-hazardous wastes.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using temporary collection points in local communities for householders’ waste.
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 the capture, treatment, storage and use of carbon dioxide (CO2) from anaerobic digestion (AD) of waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction.
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.
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