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How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
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.
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
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.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
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