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How to report a business or organisation that is not separating or collecting recyclable waste in line with the Simpler Recycling rules.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion treatment capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Waste codes for common wastes produced by mechanical treatment at a waste management facility.
The Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is the UK’s principal facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using temporary collection points in local communities for householders’ waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on discharging waste containing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) into a wastewater treatment works where your permit contains a POPs exclusion.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when sweeping waste can be stored and bulked before collection for onward recovery and disposal elsewhere
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
Developing new waste management capability and opportunities to work group-wide as part of a broader integration programme to underpin the NDA’s and nation’s strategy of a more joined-up approach to waste management.
How to get support if you have to report packaging data or pay a fee under EPR for packaging
UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility (MRF).
Standard rules for a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
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