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Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
The T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
The 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.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
The U8 exemption allows you to use waste materials (that do not need treating) for a specific purpose to reduce the use of virgin or non-waste materials.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
The 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.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for May 2025
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
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 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.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
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