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Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
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.
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.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
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.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
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