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Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can accept waste with codes that are not listed in your waste authorisation or the quality protocols.
How waste collectors should prioritise their collection services during extreme circumstances.
European and UK regulations govern how you can move radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel into or out of the country.
The T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
The T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
The T29 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings by carbon filtration before disposing of them to land.
The T33 exemption allows you to filter central heating oil from disused tanks so that it can be reused.
The U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
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.
Process for assessing the acceptability of a candidate nuclear power station design.
How the Environment Agency has been working with partners, including Bristol City Council and Public Health England, to determine whether there are health risks from air quality in Avonmouth, Bristol.
You must consider this guidance if you deal with surplus or waste food and drink.
This report concludes that a well-run active site should not pose a health risk, but could still have an impact on mental and physical health.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
How to comply with your standard rules environmental permit for the keeping and use of Category 5 sealed radioactive sources.
Handbook and software to help assess the risks of radioactively contaminated land exposure for human health.
Standard rules to operate non-hazardous and hazardous household waste amenity site at a specified location.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station at a specified location (no building).
Standard rules to store up to 75,000 tonnes of furnace ready scrap metal for recovery.
Standard rules to operate compression and spark ignition engines.
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