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The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
How regulators determine fit and proper person status when you apply for approval as a compliance scheme or accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can burn waste wood during community events such as Guy Fawkes’ bonfires and Scout and Guide campfires.
Use the definitions, criteria and evidence given to classify portable and industrial batteries.
Case studies of completed measures or measures being progressed in river basin districts from 2015.
Prepare for the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) expansion to energy from waste (EfW) and waste incineration by participating in the voluntary MRV-only period.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste coded 16 03 06 when this code is not listed in your permit or waste exemption.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using whole waste tyres in building construction, in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs, for fendering systems and planters, and as crash protection barriers.
This report concludes that a well-run active site should not pose a health risk, but could still have an impact on mental and physical health.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage and treatment of waste filter bed media at water and waste water treatment works.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and dewater (dry) non-hazardous iron ochre sludge at an abandoned coal mine water treatment scheme.
When recovered non-packaging plastics are no longer waste.
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