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This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
U11 exemption allows you to spread waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
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.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.
The convictions you must declare when you apply for a new permit or to transfer a permit.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
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