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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.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
If you operate a medium combustion plant (MCP) or a generator, find out if you need to meet MCP and specified generator regulations.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting 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.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
Find out what you must include in an air dispersion modelling report to get an environmental permit.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
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