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For a facility with a treatment capacity less than 75 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
For a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day accepting no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing and cutting waste rubber conveyor belts for reuse: RPS 305
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing lead acid vehicle batteries, cable and gas cylinders at HWRCs when the correct waste codes are not in your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing waste aerosol air freshener canisters on premises of washroom services companies and similar hygiene facilities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can treat residual mixed municipal waste by aerobic digestion at the place the waste was produced.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and use waste fire extinguishers to train people to fight fires.
The requirements for packaging DNLEU
More information on our screening work, and its relevance to the siting of a GDF
What operators need to do in terms of submitting plans for radioactive waste disposal following our exit from Euratom and requirements under Article 37.
Waste Container guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Wasteform guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Decommissioning the UK’s fleet of Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (AGR).
This treaty was presented to Parliament in February 2025.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in March 2024.
Process for assessing the acceptability of a candidate nuclear power station design.
Information about the Biffa Waste Services Limited, Poplars anaerobic digestion plant, Cannock, Staffordshire.
Local authority regulators must use this SG note to assess applications and write permits for burning recovered fuel oil.
Environment Agency enforcement position on dewatering bentonite slurry waste from secant piling or the construction of retaining and containment walls.
Guidance on setting limits and levels on discharges of gaseous and liquid radioactive waste from nuclear licensed sites in England and Wales.
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