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Standard rules to use waste for reclamation, restoration or improvement of land (existing permits only).
Standard rules to operate metal recycling sites.
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and dewater (dry) non-hazardous iron ochre sludge at an abandoned coal mine water treatment scheme.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store sealed containers of food waste.
This document is aimed at people who design or assess proposals which include a geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) for environmental protection.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using whole waste tyres in building construction, in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs, for fendering systems and planters, and as crash protection barriers.
How a designated collection facility (DCF) must manage its separately collected household WEEE.
DSS Part A: High Level Requirements and DSS Part B: Technical Specification
T30 exemption allows you to recover silver from waste produced in connection with printing or photography.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on burning waste particle board off-cuts (waste code 03 01 05) as a fuel in a small appliance.
This document provides Site Licence Companies with details of the process for and a template upon which to base their TBuRD submission.
Advice on how to classify and code wastes from some of the methods used to treat hazardous waste.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for the manufacture of coating materials.
How to analyse samples taken to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks.
Guidance for Low Level Radioactive Waste (LLW) site operators, detailing how eligible sites can be exempted from Nuclear Third Party Liability.
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