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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.
Guidance on the performance standards for automatic isokinetic samplers used in the measurement of emissions from industrial chimney stacks, flues and ducts.
Guidance for packaging producers on 2025 recyclability assessments and implications for 2026-2027 modulated fees.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of tyre-derived rubber materials.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can remove airworthy parts from a waste aircraft which is under a care and maintenance programme.
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.
Standard rules to operate a clinical waste and healthcare waste transfer station at a specified location.
Standard rules to operate storage of furnace ready scrap metal for recovery.
Standard rules and generic risk assessment for managing extractive waste.
Standard rules to store PAS 107 certified clean cut tyre shred and chip at a port.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
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.
The Environment Agency’s role in the development and regulation of a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste.
Exemption, notification, registering and licensing of radioactive substances and radiation generators in the UK.
How to apply to become an authorised ship recycling facility and operate legally under the approval.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept shredded electronic storage media at permitted hazardous waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) sites where waste code 19 02 04* is not on your permit.
View the permit issued for Esholt Waste Water Treatment Works, Bradford under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
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