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Guidance about environmental permit conditions for radioactive substances activities on nuclear licensed sites and how operators should comply.
Considerable savings can be made by adopting simple cost-effective techniques for minimising industrial waste during the production processes.
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
Statutory guidance on radioactive contaminated land for local authorities.
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.
This page provides introductory information on High Heat Generating Waste (HHGW).
Who, what, why and where
T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting metal shredder residues and post shredder treatment residues for disposal at landfill for non-hazardous waste.
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.
A methodology for testing protector geotextiles for their performance in specific site conditions.
This guidance will help anyone understand their obligations in relation to hazardous waste and the waste hierarchy.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
This document provides the performance standards for open path ambient air quality monitoring systems.
The National Waste Programme was established to implement the UK’s strategy for the management of solid low level radioactive waste (LLW) from the nuclear industry. It is an industry-wide collaboration led by LLW Repository …
This guidance outlines the rights of appeal against a decision that PackUK have made or a notice that PackUK have issued.
The Environment Agency's regulatory approach to perimeter soil gas following publication of the industry code of practice.
End of waste criteria for the production of PFA and FBA for use in bound and grout applications in specified construction and manufacturing uses.
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