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Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your application is correct.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.
How to develop and maintain a plan for managing radioactive wastes created and disposed of by radioactive substances activity permit holders.
T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
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