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Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by vehicle maintenance and dismantling activities.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by mechanical treatment at a waste management facility.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
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