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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.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
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.
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
If you operate a medium combustion plant (MCP) or a generator, find out if you need to meet MCP and specified generator regulations.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
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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