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Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
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.
Standard rules to operate a composting facility involving storage, physical treatment and composting of specified biodegradable wastes.
Standard rules to operate metal recycling sites.
Standard rules for part A installation: capacity more than 75 tonnes per day.
Understand the European Community (EC) directive 2006/12/EC6 on waste (Waste Framework Directive).
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in water discharge activities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
Guidance on setting limits and levels on discharges of gaseous and liquid radioactive waste from nuclear licensed sites in England and Wales.
Guide for local authorities determining levels of risk for activities regulated under the LA-IPPC regime.
The purpose of this document is to provide a best method approach to sampling and analysing emissions from enclosed landfill gas flares.
Guidance on monitoring the concentration of trace components in raw landfill gas at permitted or licenced landfill sites.
Industry guidance on the interim storage of Higher Activity Waste packages and integrated approach.
When aggregate made from steel slag is no longer waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting separately collected household packaging waste at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) when 15 01 waste codes are not in your environmental permit.
Publishing dates for batteries data.
This page provides introductory information on Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW) packages.
What businesses need to do to import ‘relevant’ nuclear materials into the UK.
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