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How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
How regulators determine fit and proper person status when you apply for approval as a compliance scheme or accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter.
UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when sweeping waste can be stored and bulked before collection for onward recovery and disposal elsewhere
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
The Environment Agency’s role in the development and regulation of a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste.
Use the definitions, criteria and evidence given to classify portable and industrial batteries.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators time to get additional technical competence qualifications.
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the treatment and disposal of invasive non-native plants and associated soil and materials.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Environment Agency regulatory position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Check if an item of WEEE or a component removed from WEEE is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread biochar (waste code 19 01 18) to benefit land.
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