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Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
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 apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an 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.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
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.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your 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.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
Describes our expectations for leadership and management systems by radioactive substances activity permit holders who are also nuclear site licensees in England and Wales.
You can use these emission factors to quantify the amount of ammonia emitted from your permitted pig or poultry operations.
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.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
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