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This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by vehicle maintenance and dismantling activities.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for compost produced from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
Standard rules for a household waste recycling centre.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by mechanical treatment at a waste management facility.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
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