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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.
Standard rules for a household waste recycling centre.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your application is correct.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
You can use these emission factors to quantify the amount of ammonia emitted from your permitted pig or poultry operations.
Use these forms to request an ammonia screening assessment as part of an intensive farming permit application.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits from April 2026
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…
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
Information you must submit to the Environment Agency in a noise impact assessment that uses computer modelling or spreadsheet calculations.
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
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