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The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your 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.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
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.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Standard rules for a household waste recycling centre.
How and when to assess the risks of noise and vibration associated with your environmental permit application, with guidance on using the noise advisory tool.
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