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Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
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 apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on groundwater abstraction under 270 days to allow small-scale abstraction to dewater a construction site.
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.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Guidance on how to do detailed air quality modelling for specified generators.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
Use the climate change risk assessment examples for your industry sector when developing or reviewing your management system.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
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).
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
02 wastes are from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing. Your permit lists the 02 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before y…
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
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