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Details on when waste rules apply to your material, import and export implications and the UK environmental regulators.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, transporting, bulking up and accepting litter from voluntary litter collections.
Explains your permit conditions so you know how to comply with the conditions.
Use the ship recycling facility plan template to apply for your ship recycling authorisation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during construction and excavation works.
Standard rules to use waste for reclamation, restoration or improvement of land (existing permits only).
Standard rules and generic risk assessment for managing extractive waste.
Standard rules and generic risk assessment for the management of onshore oil exploration.
Standard rules for using waste to manufacture timber or construction products.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and physically treat hazardous metal shredder residues without the correct waste codes on your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when local authorities can temporarily store waste sandbags at designated collection points without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using temporary collection points in local communities for householders’ waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing waste coffee pods.
Environment Agency regulatory position on discharging waste containing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) into a wastewater treatment works where your permit contains a POPs exclusion.
Putting geological disposal into context
U5 exemption allows you to store and use biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.
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 waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
Environment Agency regulatory position on emergency services and armed forces using end of life vehicles (ELVs) and other wastes for training.
How to apply to the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) if you want to submit a nuclear power plant design.
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