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Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
U10 exemption lets you spread certain wastes on agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
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.
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.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
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.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
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.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
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