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The T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, cut or pulverise waste wood and plant matter to make it easier to store and transport, or to convert it for use.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
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 any waste at the place of production before it’s collected.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
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.
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 deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
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.
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.
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.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
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.
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