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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.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
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.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Standard rules for a household waste recycling centre.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Standard rules permit and generic risk assessment for new and existing, low risk, stationary medium combustion plant.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your application is correct.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during construction and excavation works.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
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.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
You can use these emission factors to quantify the amount of ammonia emitted from your permitted pig or poultry operations.
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