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You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
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.
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.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
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 choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under 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.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Calculate the annual nitrogen and phosphorus emissions from your livestock. Report the data to the Environment Agency.
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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