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Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar practitioners to denature controlled drugs, to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
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