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How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
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.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
When you need consent or permit to discharge from water supply assets to surface waters. How to carry out a risk assessment and how to apply.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
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.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
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